Cuke Infused Lemonade
Makes a Half Gallon (2 Quarts), 8
Seltzer vs. Club Soda
servings
Yes, it’s good for you, and ideal
Mix it UP!
for hydrating. Seltzer water
1 cucumber,
that has NO added ingredients
washed and thinly
(except carbonation) is nothing
sliced
more than water. Seltzer is
1 recipe George’s
plain water into which carbon
lemonade
dioxide gas has been dissolved.
For each serving use
Club soda on the other hand is
about 1/4 cup seltzer
carbonated water with the
The Spritz on Seltzer
four mint leaves
addition of salt and can contain
Seltzer is an ideal additive to perk
numerous other ‘ates such as
up beverages, easy and cheap to
Place the cucumber slices
disodium phosphate, potassium
make at home. And you thought it
into a large pitcher. When
citrate and so on…
was only good for a Three Stooges
making lemonade, first
gag!
squeeze lemon juice over
1 cup cold water
cuke slices, allow lemon juice to
1 cup fresh strawberries & or
An egg cream is a New York City
marinate cuke slices for five
raspberries, (in a pinch-use frozen)
soda-fountain concoction that
minutes, then complete the lemonade
1/4 cup sugar, variable depending on
became popular in the fifties. It
recipe as directed, add fresh mint
how sweet the berries are & how
contains neither egg nor cream but
leaves.
tart/ sweet you like it.
when properly mixed, produces a 1/2 cup ice, shaved or cubes
foam like head similar to beaten egg
To serve, fill glass with ice, 3/4 with
1/4 cup seltzer per glass
whites.
Cuke Infused Lemonade and top off
In a blender, blend the lemon juice,
with seltzer.
water, berries with juice, sugar, ice
Egg Cream cubes until slushy. Serve in a
Makes one serving
Do you taste foods for a
tall glass filled with ice; pour
recipe before you make
3/4 of a glass with
1/4 cup chocolate syrup
a recipe? I don’t call it
berry juice and top off
1 cup milk
snacking, more like quality
with seltzer.
One 12-ounce glass filled with ice
control. After-all,
Seltzer (not club soda)
ingredients are ever
*To Spike: You can add
changing. Sometimes
1/2 ounce of vodka, Or
Pour the chocolate syrup and milk
berries will be sweet and
rum, Or tequila to each
into a shaker glass and shake for 30
other times a bit more
glass over the ice.
seconds. Pour into the ice-filled glass
sour. Once you taste, you
and top off with seltzer.
can adjust to your own
{For other Chilly
preference. Cheers!
Beverages}
If your garden is pumping out cukes •George’s Lemonade
faster than you can slice them here’s
Berry Fiz
•Chilly Chocolate Shake
a refreshing way to juice it up!
Makes 3-4 servings
•Tangerine Iced Tea
imagescredits;© Manuela Weschke,
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
•Melon Mojito
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