Taste USA: Drinks

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Red Fruit Refresher

How to Make Red Fruit Refresher Recipe - preparation 10 minutes plus cooling cooking time 2–3 minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients:
2 tsp cornflour (cornstarch)
50g/2oz/¼ cup caster (superfine) sugar
300ml/½ pint/1¼ cups red grape juice
225g/8oz red plums, halved and stoned
150g/5oz blackberries
225g/8oz seedless red grapes, halved

Method:
1 Put the cornflour and sugar in a pan, then gradually mix in the red grape juice until smooth. Heat gently, stirring until the sugar dissolves.

2 Increase the heat and bring to the boil, stirring until thickened. Reduce the heat and add the plums, blackberries and grapes. Mix together.

3 Simmer for 2–3 minutes until just tender. Cool and serve or freeze.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Mimosa

How to Make Mimosa Recipe - preparation 5 minutes plus chilling

Serves 12

Ingredients:
1 bottle champagne or sparkling dry white wine, e.g. Prosecco
900ml/1½ pints/3⅔ cups unsweetened orange juice

Method:
1 Chill the champagne and orange juice in the refrigerator.

2 When thoroughly chilled, mix them together in a large jug and pour into 12 fluted champagne glasses. Serve.

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Virgin Sea Breeze

How to Make Virgin Sea Breeze Recipe - preparation 5 minutes

Serves 6

Ingredients:
600ml/1 pint/2½ cups chilled cranberry juice drink
600ml/1 pint/2½ cups chilled unsweetened grapefruit juice
ice cubes

Method:
1 Mix together the cranberry juice drink and grapefruit juice in a large jug, stirring well.

2 Put plenty of ice in six tall glasses and pour the cranberry and grapefruit mixture over the top. Serve immediately.

Homemade Lemonade

How to Make Homemade Lemonade Recipe - preparation 15 minutes plus chilling

Serves 6–8

Ingredients:
6 large unwaxed lemons
1.2 litres/2 pints/5 cups boiling water
1–2 tbsp sugar
ice cubes
sparkling water to serve

Method:
1 Remove the zest in thin strips from 3 lemons. Place in a large jug with the squeezed juice of all 6 lemons. Add the boiling water and sugar and set aside to cool.

2 When completely cool, cover the jug and chill in the refrigerator overnight.

3 Strain the lemonade through a sieve or some muslin (cheesecloth) and store in corked bottles in the refrigerator. Serve over ice diluted with sparkling water.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Planters Tea Punch

How to Make Planters Tea Punch Recipe - preparation 10 minutes plus infusing and cooling

Serves 2

Ingredients:
2 tsp Indian tea leaves
5cm/2in piece cinnamon stick
2 tsp caster (superfine) sugar
1 large ripe mango
juice of 3 oranges
a few ice cubes
2 cinnamon sticks to serve

Method:
1 Put the tea leaves in a heatproof jug with the cinnamon and sugar. Pour in 225ml/8fl oz/1 cup boiling water and set aside to infuse for 5 minutes.

2 Strain through a fine sieve and set aside to cool.

3 Peel and stone the mango and chop the flesh. Blitz in a blender with the orange juice and cold tea.

4 Serve in two glasses with ice and cinnamon sticks.

Orange Soda

How to Make Orange Soda Recipe - preparation 5 minutes

Serves 2

Ingredients:
4 medium oranges
1 lemon
2 tbsp sugar syrup
a few ice cubes
soda water, chilled

Method:
1 Cut off the peel from the oranges and lemon, removing as much white pith as possible. Chop the flesh roughly, discarding any pips, and put in a blender and blitz until smooth. Sweeten with sugar syrup to taste.

2 Divide between two glasses and add a few cubes of ice. Top up with soda water and serve immediately.

Fruit Punch

How to Make Fruit Punch Recipe - preparation 10 minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients:
250g/9oz fresh pineapple
1 ripe papaya
1 large ripe mango
2 ripe guavas
2 passion fruit
a few ice cubes
300ml/½ pint/1¼ cups lemonade
300ml/½ pint/1¼ cups orange juice

Method:
1 Peel and core the pineapple, then roughly chop the flesh.

2 Peel the papaya and scoop out the black seeds. Roughly chop the flesh.

3 Slice the flesh off the central stone of the mango, then peel and chop the flesh.

4 Peel the guavas and discard the seeds. Chop roughly.

5 Halve the passion fruit and scoop out the seeds and pulp.

6 Put all the fruit in a blender and blitz until thick and smooth.

7 Transfer to a large jug and stir in some ice. Top up with lemonade and orange juice and serve.

Pimms and Lemonade

How to Make Pimms and Lemonade Recipe - preparation 10 minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients:
ice cubes
200ml/7fl oz/¾ cup Pimm’s No 1
600ml/1 pint/2½ cups chilled lemonade
¼ cucumber, thinly sliced
1 orange, thinly sliced
6 strawberries, hulled and sliced
a few fresh mint leaves

Method:
1 Put some ice cubes in a large jug (pitcher) and pour in the Pimm’s and lemonade.

2 Add the cucumber, orange, strawberries and mint and stir well.

3 Serve immediately in four tall glasses.

Fruity Mint Julep

How to Make Fruity Mint Julep Recipe - preparation 10 minutes

Serves 2

Ingredients:
12 fresh mint leaves plus sprigs to garnish
2 tsp icing (confectioner’s) sugar
75ml/3fl oz/5 tbsp bourbon
250g/9oz crushed pineapple
275g/10oz crushed ice

Method:
1 Put the mint leaves in a jug. Add the icing sugar and crush the leaves.

2 Add the bourbon and crushed pineapple and stir well.

3 Add the crushed ice and divide between two tall glasses. Serve garnished with mint sprigs.

Ginger Fizz

How to Make Ginger Fizz Recipe - preparation 10 minutes

Serves 2

Ingredients:
½ cantaloupe melon
1 lemon
2 pieces stem ginger in syrup
a few ice cubes
300ml/½ pint/1¼ cups dry ginger ale, chilled

Method:
1 Cut the melon into slices and remove the skin. Discard the seeds and roughly chop the flesh.

2 Peel the lemon, removing the white pith. Chop the lemon roughly, discarding any pips.

3 Chop the ginger and put in a blender with the melon and lemon. Blitz until smooth.

4 Pour into two tall glasses and add some ice cubes. Top up with dry ginger ale and serve.

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Fresh Fruit Punch

How to Make Fresh Fruit Punch Recipe - preparation 5 minutes

Serves 8

Ingredients:
250ml/8fl oz/1 cup orange juice
250ml/8fl oz/1 cup pineapple juice
150ml/¼ pint/scant ⅔ cup peach juice
juice of 5 lemons
750ml/1¼ pints/3 cups sparkling water or tonic water
ice cubes
225g/8oz fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
1 orange, cut into slices, then quartered

Method:
1 Put the orange, pineapple, lemon and peach juices and the blackcurrant cordial in a large punch bowl.

2 Stir well, then add the sparkling water or tonic water and plenty of ice.

3 Divide the strawberries and orange slices between eight tall glasses and top up with the fresh fruit punch. Serve the punch immediately.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Vitamin C Tonic

How to Make Vitamin C Tonic Recipe - preparation 10 minutes

Serves 1

Ingredients:
1 large orange, peeled
1 lemon, peeled
1 lime, peeled
½ pink grapefruit, peeled
1 tsp runny honey

Method:
1 Chop the flesh of all the fruits, discarding any pips, and put in a blender with honey to taste. Blitz until smooth and pour over crushed ice in a glass.

Lemonade

How to Make Lemonade Recipe - preparation 10 minutes

Serves 6

Ingredients:
4 lemons
175g/6oz/¾ cup sugar

Method:
1 Remove the lemon zest thinly with a potato peeler. Put the zest and sugar in a jug and pour on 900ml/1½ pints/3⅔ cups boiling water. Leave to cool, stirring occasionally.

2 Add the juice of the lemons and strain the lemonade. Serve chilled.

Friday, April 29, 2016

Sonic Ocean Water

How to make Sonic Ocean Water Recipe

Makes two 12- ounce servings

Ingredients:
3 T water
2 T sugar
1 t imitation coconut extract
2 dr blue food coloring
2 12-ounce cans cold Sprite
ice

Method:
Combine the water and the sugar in a small bowl. Microwave for 30-45 seconds, then stir to dissolve all of the sugar. Allow this syrup to cool.

Add coconut extract and food coloring to the cooled syrup. Stir well.

Combine the syrup with two 12-ounce cans of cold Sprite. Divide and pour over ice.

McDonalds Vanilla Iced Coffee

How to make McDonalds Vanilla Iced Coffee Recipe - McDonald's is cashing in on the coffee craze with this iced coffee recipe.

SERVES 6

Ingredients:
6 tablespoons ground coffee
61/3 cups cold water
14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
Ice cubes

Method:
Brew the coffee in a coffee maker. After it's done brewing, set aside to cool.

Combine brewed coffee and sweetened condensed milk in a large pitcher. Stir thoroughly until coffee and condensed milk are blended together.

Stir in the vanilla extract.

Refrigerate until the coffee is chilled.

Serve in glasses filled with ice. Read More

McDonalds Caramel Frappe

How to make McDonalds Caramel Frappe Recipe - According to McDonald's, you deserve a break today with this sweet coffee drink.

SERVES 2

Ingredients:
2 cups ice
½ cup milk
½ cup strong coffee
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons caramel syrup
1/3 cup whipped cream, for garnish
Drizzle of caramel syrup, for garnish

Method:
Add all the drink ingredients into a blender. Mix well.

Divide into 2 tall glasses.

Garnish with whipped cream and drizzle with caramel syrup. Read More

Flavored Coffee

How to make Flavored Coffee Recipe

Ingredients:
1/2 c instant coffee
1/2 c sugar
1 c powdered milk
2 tb cocoa
1/2 c instant coffee
1/3 c sugar
1 c powdered milk
1/2 ts dried orange peel
1/2 c instant coffee
2/3 c sugar
2/3 c powdered milk
1/2 ts cinnamon

Method:
Can subsitute the appropriate amounts of artificial sweentener for sugar, if desired.

One recipe will yield about 20 cups.

Put two tsps of your favorite mix in a cup of boiling water and stir. Read More

Fake Yoo Hoo Chocolate Drink

How to make Fake Yoo Hoo Chocolate Drink Recipe

Ingredients:
1/2 c hershey (or nestle chocolate) drink,powder
1 1/2 c nonfat dry milk powder
3 c water

Method:
Mix all the contents in a blender for about 30 seconds. Refrigerate until cool. Read More

Chili's Twisted Lemonade Twist

How to make Chili's Twisted Lemonade Twist Recipe

Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients:
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz triple sec
1/3 c sweet & sour mix
lemon wedge

Method:
1. Fill a glass with crushed ice and add vodka and triple sec. 2. Top off the drink with sweet & sour mix 3. Add a lemon wedge for garnish and serve. Serves 1. Read More

Wendy's Frosty

How to make Wendy's Frosty Recipe - This is the original recipe for the cool and refreshing ice cream drink.

SERVES 2–4

Ingredients:
¾ cup milk
¼ cup Hershey chocolate powder
4 cups vanilla ice cream

Method:
Combine all of the drink ingredients in a blender.

Blend on medium speed until creamy and thick. Stir if necessary.

If too thin, freeze the mixture in the serving cups until thicker. Read More