Long Iceland Iced Tea

The other day I had a cookbook about the cuisine of various Nordic countries in my hand, which supposedly presented typical dishes and drinks from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland - in Iceland I then found a recipe for "Long Island Iced Tea" as a drink. Um, yes, someone probably didn't work very cleanly. (Other recipes from the book were nice though!)

On the other hand - a recipe for a "Long Iceland Iced Tea", that might be something...? Iced tea with typical Icelandic ingredients...?

Then I let off steam.

Ingredients for 4 glasses

1 tsp Icelandic moss
200 ml boiling water
2 pears
65 ml vanilla sauce
3 tsp sweet licorice syrup
150 ml cold water
Fine licorice powder
Ice cubes


Preparation

Put the chopped Icelandic moss in a tea infuser or something similar, hang it in a teapot and pour 200 ml of boiling water over it and let it steep for about 10 minutes. Then let it cool down a bit.

Peel, core and chop the pears. Place in a blender together with the vanilla sauce, the licorice syrup and 150 ml of water and puree carefully.

Then pour the pureed mixture into the teapot with the tea.

Above all, but not only for decoration:

Place the raw licorice powder on a saucer, carefully moisten the rim of two drinking glasses with water and then turn it upside down on the saucer to create a beautiful licorice rim.

Then fill the glasses at least halfway with ice cubes, pour over the licorice tea and serve immediately.

Tip:

If you prefer to enjoy your Long Iceland Iced Tea as a long drink, you can add a little Brennivín and stir, about 1/4 to a maximum of 1/2 shot glass per glass (i.e. 0.5 cl to a maximum of 1 cl Brennivín).

[Translated from here.]