{"id":1821,"date":"2018-05-19T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2018-05-13T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T14:40:27","slug":"lemon-verbena-iced-tea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Verbena Iced Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ingredients:<\/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>Directions:<\/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>Note:<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: 1\/2 cup\u00a0sugar 1\/2 cup\u00a0water 1 cup\u00a0lemon verbena leaves 4 cups\u00a0ice 6 cups\u00a0brewed tea, chilled Mint leaves (optional) Lemon wedges (optional) Directions: Combine sugar and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1822,"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":"It's almost summer and nothing like iced tea to cool off.....Just add a little southern twist","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":[5,1867,57],"tags":[197,953,1866,1870,1672],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beverage","category-iced-tea","category-tea","tag-beverage-2","tag-iced-beverage","tag-lemon-verbena-iced-tea","tag-summer-beverage","tag-tea-2","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southernladycooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Green-tea-850x400.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yoUc-tn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}