Herbal Tea

INGREDIENTS:
3 tea bags with strings
hot water
1 bottle
1 refrigerator

In light of today’s diet awareness, we present this handy recipe, which, though not earthshaking, provides a refreshing thing to reach for when checking to see if the refrigerator light still operates. Take a glass half-gallon bottle, like what apple juice comes in at the market. Fill the bottle with hot tap water. (Don’t get fussy and boil it or anything.) Take three tea bags of anything, twist the strings together, push the bags into the bottle, and screw the lid on so the strings stick out. (Don’t let the tea bag companies give you that bugle juice about ten tea bags per gallon. You yourself may one day have children to put through college as they apparently do.) Place the jar on the counter for about fifteen minutes, then take the tea bags out. When the jar is cool enough so it doesn’t melt the plastic shelf in your refrigerator, put the jar in the frig. You can make this tea with cold water and just put it in the frig, and this works, but with hot water you can watch the tea leach out of the bags, form little tea tendrils, drift down and form a gradient at the bottom of the bottle. (If you often spend time observing such things, you should probably either get a hobby or become a government worker.)