Top secret recipes_ sodas, smoothies, sp - Todd Wilbur [22]
1. Add orange juice, pineapple juice, grenadine, and ice to a blender. Blend the drink with just a couple pulses on high speed so that the ice is still a bit chunky.
2. Pour into a 16-ounce glass and ladle strawberries with the syrup into the drink.
3. Add a wedge of orange and a maraschino cherry speared on a toothpick. Serve with a straw.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
7-ELEVEN CHERRY SLURPEE
Put on a big red smile. Now you can make your own version of the popular convenience store slush we know by the excruciating brain throb that follows a big ol’ gulp. You must have a blender to make this clone of 7-Eleven’s Slurpee, and enough room to stick that blender into your freezer to get it nice and thick. This recipe gets close to the original with Kool-Aid mix and a little help from cherry extract, but you can make this drink with any flavor Kool-Aid mix (if you decide to make some variations, don’t worry about adding extract).This recipe makes enough to fill one of those giant 32-ounce cups you find at the convenience store. Now if we could just figure out how to make those funky spoon-straws.
2 cups cold club soda
½ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon plus ⅛ teaspoon
Kool-Aid cherry-flavored
unsweetened drink mix
½ teaspoon cherry extract
2½ cups crushed ice
1. Pour 1 cup of the club soda into a blender. Add the sugar, Kool-Aid mix, and cherry extract. Blend this until all of the sugar is dissolved.
2. Add the crushed ice and blend on high speed until the drink is a slushy, smooth consistency, with no remaining chunks of ice.
3. Add the remaining club soda and blend briefly until mixed.You may have to stop the blender and use a long spoon to stir up the contents.
4. If necessary, put the blender into your freezer for ½ hour.This will help thicken it up. After ½ hour remove blender from freezer and, again, blend briefly to mix.
• MAKES 1 32-OUNCE DRINK (OR 2 16-OUNCERS).
SNAPPLE ICED TEA
Snapple was selling juices for five years—since 1982—before the fruity line of teas was rolled out. Just five years after that, Snapple was selling more tea in the U.S. than Lipton or Nestea.Today, even though Snapple sells over 50 different bottled beverages, the iced teas are still the most successful products in the line. But not all the fruity flavors of tea were hits. Cranberry, strawberry, and orange are now extinct, so those flavors can only be enjoyed by making versions of your own at home with these simple formulas. I’ve also got lemon and peach flavors here, Snapple’s two top-selling products, plus raspberry, another big seller.
Included here are improved versions of iced tea clones printed in the book More Top Secret Recipes.
CRANBERRY ICED TEA
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
¾ cup granulated sugar
cup plus 2 tablespoons bottled
lemon juice
2 tablespoons Ocean Spray
cranberry juice cocktail
concentrate
DIET LEMON ICED TEA
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
16 1-gram packages Equal
sweetener
cup bottled lemon juice
LEMON ICED TEA
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
¾ cup granulated sugar
cup bottled lemon juice
ORANGE ICED TEA
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
¾ cup granulated sugar
cup bottled lemon juice
⅛ teaspoon orange extract
PEACH ICED TEA
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
¾ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon bottled
lemon juice
3 tablespoons Torani peach
flavoring syrup
Alternate clone: Rather than Torani peach flavoring use one 12-ounce can Kern’s peach nectar, and 3 tablespoons lemon juice instead of ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
RASPBERRY ICED TEA
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
¾ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon lemon
juice
2 tablespoons Torani raspberry
flavoring syrup
STRAWBERRY ICED TEA
2 quarts (8 cups) water
2 Lipton tea bags
¾ cup granulated sugar
cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon strawberry extract
1. Bring water to a rapid boil in a large saucepan.
2. Turn off heat, add tea bags, cover saucepan and let the tea steep for 1 to 2 hours.
3. Pour