So I created a recipe that I shall call Blackbeard's Iced Tea, this is an alcoholic drink and it pays homage to his legendary Kill-devil drink. According to what I can find, his Kill-devil drink was a spiced rum mixed with gunpowder, and according to some legends, then set ablaze before he would drink it down!
While this is an ice tea, I will not be including gunpowder, but will instead be using lapsang souchong tea as the base. Lapsang souchong is a chinese smoked black tea, this smokiness will be the part that gives us the "gunpowder" aspect of it. Instead of warming up the cockles of yer heart, this drink will be a nice cooling drink on a hot day!
Blackbeard's Ice Tea
Ingredients:
Ice
Shot of spiced rum
Splash of fresh squeezed lime juice
Sweetened lapsang souchong ice tea
Directions:
1) Make some homemade sweet ice tea with lapsang souchong tea leaves ~*
2) Fill a tall glass with ice
3) Pour in a shot of your favorite spiced rum (mine is Code Rum)
4) Add a splash of fresh squeezed lime juice
5) Fill with the sweetened ice tea
6) Enjoy!
~ There are many ways of making homemade ice tea with loose leaf tea or tea bags, look for the way that appeals the most to you, I like to use the slow and cold method but that's me.
* If you are having trouble finding Lapsang Souchong, check out the Spice and Tea Exchange as it is one of their standard carry items.
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