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Actual tea insideRaspberry vodka · honey · ice

One pour, six small glasses

Red Tea Shot

Rahul’s three-ingredient tea shooter pairs 150 milliliters of hot brewed tea with one 45-milliliter pour of raspberry vodka and honey to taste.

Mix the shots
Two tall red raspberry cocktails with lemon slices and foamy tops on a wooden table.
These open-license raspberry-and-lemon cocktails are an illustrative color study, not the exact source drink; Rahul’s formula uses hot tea, honey, and raspberry vodka and does not specify lemon or foam.Photo by Nenad Stojkovic / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Tea
150 ml
Vodka
45 ml
Clock
7 min
Yield
6 small shots

This red tea shot really begins with tea. Rahul’s compact 2022 formula puts 150 milliliters of a hot brew against 45 milliliters of raspberry vodka, then leaves the honey to the maker. That makes it a sweetened, quickly chilled tea shooter—not the peach-schnapps-and-sour drink that now often travels under the same name.

The source’s brevity hides the only useful choreography: dissolve honey while the tea is hot, keep the vessel open, add vodka, then let ice pull the temperature down. The recipe stays three ingredients at heart; the editorial work is simply making those transitions explicit.

“Tea is the main pour, not just the name”

Dissolve first

Honey disperses cleanly in the hot tea before cold vodka and ice enter the vessel.

Keep it open

Use a heatproof jug or an unsealed shaker tin while the mixture is hot; this recipe is stirred, not pressure-shaken.

Read the chill

Stir over fresh ice until a metal vessel feels cold, then hold the mixing ice back as you pour.

The ratio mapTea leads · berry follows · honey adjusts

Three ingredients and one cold finish

The measured base is fixed. Tea choice and honey level remain open because the source leaves them open.

01

Hot brewed tea

At 150 milliliters, tea is the body of the drink rather than a token splash or a color metaphor.

The source names no variety or strength. Brew the tea you choose according to its own package, then measure it.
02

Raspberry vodka

One 45-milliliter pour scents the whole batch with raspberry and supplies all of its alcohol.

Use the source-named Absolut Raspberri or disclose a substitution; fresh raspberries are not part of the formula.
03

Honey

An unmeasured amount rounds the tea and lets the maker decide where bitter, sweet, and berry should meet.

Taste before adding more. The correct amount cannot be recovered from the source, so precision would be false.
04

Ice

The final stir cools the hot base and adds the controlled water that makes the small pours gentler.

Use solid, fresh cubes and stop when the vessel feels cold rather than letting the batch sit on melting ice.

Flavor, not garnishThe photographed extras stay outside the recipe

Raspberry in the vodka, honey in the cup

Raspberry tea in a clear cup with a small jar of honey and spoon alongside.
This photographed raspberry tea includes whole berries, lemon, and thyme that are not in the source formula; the honey at its side does illustrate the drink’s adjustable sweetener.Photo by MOs810 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Identity check

The berry is a vodka flavor, not a muddled ingredient. The tea itself may pour amber rather than red.

Macro photograph filling the frame with ripe red raspberries.
Raspberries describe the vodka’s flavor, not an extra ingredient. The source does not add fresh fruit to the shot.Photo by Ivar Leidus / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The short clockBrew sweeten measure chill divide

Seven minutes from kettle to six pours

The source’s 5-minute prep and 2-minute cook clock becomes a clear, open-vessel sequence.

  1. 0:00

    Brew

    Prepare the selected tea by its own directions and measure 150 milliliters while hot.

  2. 0:02

    Sweeten

    Stir in honey to taste while the tea can dissolve it completely.

  3. 0:04

    Add the pour

    Measure 45 milliliters of raspberry vodka into the open heatproof vessel.

  4. 0:05

    Cool over ice

    Add fresh cubes and stir until the drink and vessel are cold.

  5. 0:07

    Divide six ways

    Hold back the mixing ice, pour six small servings, and drink immediately.

Red Tea Shot

Rahul’s recovered three-ingredient formula: 150 milliliters hot brewed tea, 45 milliliters raspberry vodka, honey to taste, and ice for the final chill.

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Ingredients

The source formula

  • 150 ml (5 fl oz) hot brewed tea; type, leaf quantity, and strength not specified
  • Honey, to taste; amount not specified
  • 45 ml (1 1/2 fl oz) Absolut Raspberri vodka
  • Ice cubes, for chilling; named in the source method

Directions

  1. Brew the tea according to its package directions, then measure 150 ml (5 fl oz) while it is hot. The source does not name a tea variety, leaf quantity, or brewing strength, so do not assume one.
  2. Pour the hot tea into a heatproof measuring jug or an open cocktail-shaker tin. Add honey to taste and stir until it is completely dissolved; the original formula gives no honey amount.
  3. Add 45 ml (1 1/2 fl oz) raspberry vodka and stir to combine. Keep the vessel open while the liquid is hot; do not seal and shake a hot mixture.
  4. Add several ice cubes, as the source directs, and stir until the drink is cool and the outside of a metal tin begins to feel cold.
  5. Use the bar spoon to hold back the mixing ice and divide the drink among 6 small shot glasses. Serve immediately.

Source and technique references: the April 27, 2022 My Recipe Magic card for legacy ID 2657215089, rt11060, its ingredient labels, and the linked Tea Recipes identity; Rahul’s recovered April 22, 2022 primary page for exact measures, author, dates, times, primary six-shot yield, classification, and method; the UK Tea Academy’s tea-brewing white paper for tea-specific temperatures, steep times, and bitterness control; the Institute of Culinary Education’s tea-and-honey cocktail method for stirring honey into tea; Liquor.com’s bartender guidance for controlled chilling and dilution over ice; and the CDC’s standard-drink guide for the 45-milliliter 40% spirit reference. The ingredient ratios are unchanged; order, open-vessel handling, chill cues, and serving language are explicit editorial guidance.

Image credits

Photography is used under open licenses with attribution: Nenad Stojkovic / Wikimedia Commons, MOs810 / Wikimedia Commons, and Ivar Leidus / Wikimedia Commons.