I have been inordinately tired this weekend, so writing has been confined to answering two requests -- one from Florida and one from Iowa -- for a recipe for sweet tea. Now why they would be writing me for a recipe was a curiosity until I remembered that I had offered a recipe to little Fiona's father in comments over at World Wide Rant several months ago. A Google search turned me up about 15 entries in.

Little do these trusting correspondents know, but I make only a lightly sweetened tea, and that only in deference to my father-in-law, who likes a little tea with his sugar. My mother-in-law prefers unsweetened as do I. Lyman likes it as I make it, and Big Daddy has to make do with adding extra sugar. Running a household is a round of compromises. Perhaps I should follow Alton Brown's advice and keep a beaker of simple syrup in the refrigerator. It dissolves better in cold tea.

And I think I might like a glass or two of tea today.

LATER: My correspondent in Florida wrote to tell me her tea turned out wonderfully, then countered with a family-favorite recipe for lemon ice-cream. What would I do without the Internet? I mean, besides get my housework done?