Hawaii'S Royal Tea - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 qt. cold water
1/3 c. loose tea or 15 tea bags
fresh mint sprigs
1/3 c. sugar
juice of 3 lemons
1/3 c. pineapple juice
pineapple spears

Preparation

Bring 1 quart water to full rolling boil in saucepan.
Remove from heat and pour over tea. Stir and let stand 5 minutes.
Stir again and strain into pitcher containing 4 sprigs mint, sugar and remaining 1 quart cold water.
Stir to dissolve sugar.
Cool tea. Remove mint, then chill, covered, several hours or overnight. Stir in lemon and pineapple juices.