{"id":1395,"date":"2016-06-04T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2016-06-04T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:38:22","slug":"lemon-verbena-iced-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Verbena Iced Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June is Iced Tea Month, like a southern needed a month for iced tea we drink it year &#8217;round.<\/p>\n<div><strong><em>Ingredients:<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>1\/2 cup\u00a0sugar<\/div>\n<div>1\/2 cup\u00a0water<\/div>\n<div>1 cup\u00a0lemon verbena leaves<\/div>\n<div>4 cups\u00a0ice<\/div>\n<div>6 cups\u00a0brewed tea, chilled<\/div>\n<div>Mint leaves (optional)<\/div>\n<div>Lemon wedges (optional)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div>Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook 1 minute or until sugar dissolves. Cool sugar syrup completely.<\/div>\n<div>Cook lemon verbena leaves in boiling water 1 minute. Drain and plunge into ice water; drain.<\/div>\n<div>Combine sugar syrup and verbena leaves in a blender; process until smooth. Cover and chill overnight. Strain sugar syrup through a fine sieve into a bowl. Place 2\/3 cup ice into each of 6 tall glasses; add 1 cup brewed tea and 2 tablespoons sugar syrup to each serving, stirring to combine. Garnish with mint leaves and lemon wedges, if desired.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Note:<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Blanching the herb leaves brightens their color so the syrup will stay green. Avoid using a strongly flavored tea, such as Earl Grey, as it will overpower the taste of the syrup.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June is Iced Tea Month, like a southern needed a month for iced tea we drink it year &#8217;round. Ingredients: 1\/2 cup\u00a0sugar 1\/2 cup\u00a0water 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,57],"tags":[197,641,956,1865,1866],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beverage","category-tea","tag-beverage-2","tag-drinks-2","tag-iced-tea","tag-iced-tea-month","tag-lemon-verbena-iced-tea","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southernladycooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lemon-Verbena-Iced-Tea.jpg?fit=2336%2C3504&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yoUc-mv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}