Recipe(tried): Sweet Tea

This is not a recipe from Cracker Barrel, but it will taste just like it. I make sweet tea all the time (my family of 5 drinks about 24+ gallons of iced tea each week!) Although I don't measure the water or have a written recipe, I'll try and tell you the basics of how it's made and you can adjust it for the amount you want to make: Use about 4 regular size tea bags per gallon of tea ("Luzianne" is the best). Note: one "family size" tea bag equals 3 regular size bags. Use about 1 1/4 cup of sugar per gallon of tea, more or less to your taste. You can also use about 18 grains of saccarine per gallon if you don't want to use sugar. Put a little water in your gallon jug and add sugar or saccarine. Stir/let dissolve. Put tea bags in a pan of water and cook over med-high heat until just before boiling, then turn down heat and let simmer for a little bit or turn it off and let it sit for a while. Pour into jug and add water to make a gallon, stir. I tend to go by the color of the tea when making it (add whatever amt. brewed tea it takes to get that iced tea color). After making, store in fridge. It's better after it has been made a day or so, we don't like it "fresh made". This may be more than you want, but for instance, if I made 4 gallons of tea, I'd put about 6 cups of water in my pan with 16 reg. size tea bags (or I'd use 6 family size bags--when doing the math, always round up). When brewed, I'd just divide up the brewed tea among the 4 gal. jugs until the color in each looked right. If you want to drink it right after it's made, you'll need to make a darker/stronger tea to allow for the ice melting in it so that it doesn't become too weak. It's really easy and I don't know what we'd do without iced tea!! :)