Bobber'S Not Too Sweet Raspberry Ice Tea - cooking recipe

Ingredients

9 tea bags (9 regular size or 3 family size hot brew tea bags, I prefer Lipton)
1 cup sugar (heaping)
1 quart boiling water
3 quarts cold water (or ice and water)
3/8 cup raspberry flavored syrup (I use a brand named DaVinci)

Preparation

Boil 1 quart of water, remove from heat, add tea bags and steep for 20 minutes.
While tea is steeping, place sugar in 1 gallon container.
After steeping is complete, drain tea bags back into tea and discard bags.
Add hot steeped tea to sugar in 1 gallon container and stir well (until all the sugar dissolves).
Add about 3 quarts of cold/ice water to 1 gallon container, (leave a little room for the syrup) -- stir well.
Last, add 3/8 cup raspberry syrup to entire mixture and stir well. (Adding the syrup to the 1 quart of concentrated hot tea earlier results in a slight bitterness I did not like).
Place in refrigerator until well chilled, serve over ice -- Enjoy!