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How to Keep Your Iced Coffee and Tea Cold Learn how to keep your iced coffee and tea cold. From "Home Made Easy" episode DHME-114

Stephanie Lydecker, host of Home Made Easy, shares tips on keeping your iced coffee or tea cold longer.

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	Stephanie shares tips for keeping coffee and other drinks cold longer.
	Figure A

Materials:

ice cube trays
labels
marker
for coffee cubes: cooled coffee
for ice tea or lemonade cubes: cool ice tea or lemonade
paring knife
cutting board

How to Keep Your Iced Coffee and Tea Cold

• Don't let your coffee drinks get watered down with plain ice cubes.

• Freeze some coffee ahead of time in an ice cube tray.

• Let it cool first before pouring.

• Be sure to label well--so that no one encounters a coffee surprise in their lemonade!

  Note: You can do the same for lemonade and ice tea.

• For "cool" cubes, things such as whole raspberries, mint leaves, triangles of orange, lemon, lime, maraschino cherries, olives and edible flowers freeze well.

• Place your "filling of choice" in the tray first.

• Cover with water (figure A).

  Tip: Check 15 minutes later to see if any of the items float to the top. If so, push down.

  Note: Cool cubes are fun for a cocktail party or picnic.

• If you don't use the entire can of chicken or beef stock, you can also pour the stock into ice trays and freeze them for later use.