Drinks of Spring
Last fall I wrote about autumn favorites like chai tea and apple cider — drinks that perfectly fit a season. With spring in full bloom, here’s what I’m sipping on the patio.
Pretty much anything with ice in it sounds tempting at the moment. It’s been iced coffee weather for the past several days but at the moment my favorite drink is one-minute real lemonade.
I’m not big on powders of any sort, especially when it’s a substitute for fresh fruit, and lemonade powder is the worst. Frozen lemonade concentrate is much too sweet for me. Thus I’ve gravitated towards the real thing.
One-minute lemonade is simply ice cubes in a medium-sized glass, the juice from a full lemon (I cut the lemon in two and use a dollar-store plastic fruit juicer), half of the remains of the juiced lemon, three tablespoons sugar and water to fill.
If that recipe seems familiar it’s because it is the oldest one in the book. But while regular lemonade recipes call for stirring and refrigerating the lemonade, who has time for that?
