Sweet Tea

1/2 gallon pitcher:
4 bags of Lipton black tea
2 cups boiling water
1/2 cup suger

put bags in 2 cups cold water, bring to boil. Put 1/2 cup sugar in pitcher. Dump boiling tea into pitcher and stir until sugar dissolves. top off pitcher with water, mix. Serve luke warm tea over about 5 cubes of freezer ice in a tall glass. First sip is chugable, about room temp, then its cold and not syrup sweet. Add about a cap full of lemon juice if needed. I grew up on this recipe, never had a soft drink or anything else for dinner at home until...never! She used the same small AL boiling pan for at least 17 years..

I find the sweet tea they serve at McDonalds disgustingly sweet.