3 Creative Takes on Lemonade, Summer's Ultimate Drink
Start the weekend early with a lemonade-inspired cocktail or a non-alcoholic version of one of our favorite warm weather drinks.
Divvy’s Gin Lemonade
Photo by Kasey Koster
Ingredients (serving size: about 2 glasses)
2 ounces gin
1 ounce fresno pepper simple syrup
1 ounce cucumber extract
5 ounces lemonade
1 ounce lemon juice
cucumber
lemon
Instructions
Combine ingredients. Shake. Garnish with crinkle cucumber & lemon wedge on the rocks.
Recipe courtesy of Divvy in Carmel.
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Watermelon Strawberry Lemonade
Ingredients (serves 8)
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
4 cups chopped watermelon
½ cup chopped strawberries
4 lemons
sparkling water (optional)
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Instructions
Bring 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar to a boil in a medium saucepan. Cool.
Place 4 cups chopped watermelon, ½ cups chopped strawberries, and the juice of 4 lemons in a blender. Add the cooled sugar water. Blend on high speed until the fruit is pureed.
Pour into a pitcher and chill. Serve over ice or with sparkling water.
Recipe courtesy of Chris Chamberlain’s cookbook The Southern Foodie’s Guide to the Pig: A Culinary Tour of the South’s Best Restaurants and the Recipes That Made Them Famous
Rhubarb Mint Pink Lemonade
Ingredients
½ cup rhubarb simple syrup
¾ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
3 cups cold water
½ cup fresh mint
sugar for garnish
mint for serving
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Instructions
Freshly squeeze lemons and strain out all seeds.
In a 1-liter pitcher, add rhubarb simple syrup, lemon juice, and water. Mix using a long cocktail stirrer, a chopstick, or spoon until well-combined.
If desired for sugar rim, pour +/- 2 tablespoons of sugar into a small dish and trace a lemon wedge around each glass. Turn glasses upside down and rotate into the sugar until the rim is well-coated.
Add mint to an 8 oz. glass, then add ice and pour lemonade over top.
Recipe and photo courtesy of The Fitchen.
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