Top secret recipes_ sodas, smoothies, sp - Todd Wilbur [21]
In giant clear plastic vats at the front of each store floats ice, fresh lemon rinds, and what is probably the world’s most thirst-quenching substance—Muscle Beach Lemonade. Our clone is a simple concoction really, with only three ingredients.And with this TSR formula, you’ll have your own version of the lemonade in the comfort of your own home at a fraction of the price.
1 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice
(about 5 lemons)
7 cups water
1 cup granulated sugar
1. Combine the lemon juice with the water and sugar in a 2-quart pitcher. Stir or shake vigorously until all the sugar is dissolved.
2. Slice the remaining lemon rind halves into fourths, then add the rinds to the pitcher. Add ice to the top of the pitcher and chill.
3. Serve the lemonade over ice in a 12-ounce glass and add a couple of lemon rind slices to each glass.
• MAKES 2 QUARTS, OR 8 SERVINGS.
MINUTE MAID ALL NATURAL LEMONADE
Minute Maid is credited with creating the modern orange juice industry by marketing the first frozen concentrated orange juice in 1946. Today the company is owned by The Coca-Cola Company and sells juices, punches, and fruit drinks in countries all over the world. Minute Maid also sells one of the most recognized brands of lemonade, made from lemon concentrate. You can easily duplicate the taste of the drink at home, but since this TSR version is made with fresh lemons, it might just edge out the real thing in a side-by-side taste test.
½ cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice
(from 2 to 3 lemons)
3¼ cups water
¼ cup plus 3 tablespoons
granulated sugar
Combine the lemon juice with the water and sugar in a 1-quart pitcher. Stir or shake the pitcher vigorously until all the sugar is dissolved. Cover and chill.
• MAKES 1 QUART.
NESTEA NATURAL LEMON FLAVORED ICED TEA
For five thousand years tea was served hot. But when a heat wave hit the World’s Fair in St. Louis in 1904, tea plantation owner Richard Blechynden couldn’t give the steamy stuff away. So he poured it over ice, creating the first iced tea, and the drink became the hit of the fair. Today Nestle’s drink division, which markets Nestea, produces somewhere in the area of 50 percent of the world’s processed tea. That’s huge business when you consider that tea is second only to water in worldwide consumption.
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons
granulated sugar
¼ cup bottled lemon juice
1. Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil. Add tea bags and let the tea steep for 1 to 2 hours.
2. Remove the tea bags and pour the tea into a 2-quart pitcher. Add sugar and lemon juice. Cover and chill.
• MAKES 2 QUARTS.
RED ROBIN FRECKLED LEMONADE
This is Red Robin’s signature non-alcoholic drink, and is simple to make with pre-made lemonade (unless you want to use one of the fresh lemonade recipes from page 88 or 90) and the strawberries that come frozen in sweet syrup. When added to the top of the ice-filled lemonade glass the strawberries and syrup speckle the drink. Serve this one without stirring it up, or the freckles will be gone.
cup frozen sweetened sliced
strawberries, thawed
1 cup lemonade
GARNISH
lemon wedge
1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with ice.
2. Ladle strawberries with syrup over the top of the ice.
3. Fill the glass with lemonade. Add a lemon wedge and serve with a straw.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
RED ROBIN STRAWBERRY ECSTACY
After adding the juices to the blender the restaurant does a “flash blend.” That means you use just a couple of pulses on high speed so that the ice is broken up into small pieces, without being completely crushed to a slushy consistency.
½ cup orange juice
cup pineapple juice
½ ounce grenadine
1 cup ice
cup frozen sweetened sliced
strawberries,