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Cool Cool Mocktails
- Cool this summer sizzling heat and parched throats with some real cool sherbets, ices and fancy chillers!!
- Some may be prepared ahead in concentrates, others may be whizzed up in a hurry while still others may need a bit of an effort.
- So just go ahead and enjoy chilling away the summer heat.
- In all following recipes the words lime and lemon are interchangeable.
- Come summer and we all look out for tangy fizzy chillers to cool the throat and beat the heat.
- Though chilled mocktails are really refreshing, their charm is lost if long, tedious procedures are required. How sweaty!! This is why I believe in keeping my mocktails quick and effortless to make.
- Though the most used ingredients are easily available in any household it will do well to keep some sugar syrup ready at hand so you needn't go through the routine at least for a week.
Syrup for mocktails:
3 cups sugar, 4 cups water, 3 tsp. lemon juice.
Boil sugar and water together, when it starts boiling simmer for 2-3 minutes.
Cool, add lemon juice, strain, and store in refrigerator.
Instead of 1 tsp. sugar, use 2 tbsp. syrup.
- You can concoct innumerable varieties of mocktails if you use a bit of imagination. Use plenty of fresh fruit, tomatoes, and leftover icecreams to the fullest.
- Mocktails are best made and consumed immediately, since the use of soda with icecream or fruit are best only when just made. If kept for a long its similar to drinking a bottle of cola long after having opened it. The fizz would have gone, so also the taste!!!
- So just go ahead and cool those parched insides with cool cool mocktails.
- All ordinary fruits juiced will turn out much better and have more `body' and colour if the fruit is brought to a boil in water and cooled, a few hours before making the juice. Eg. pineapple and grapes. This way the water and fruit contents will also not separate in layers in a standing glass.
- Juices and chillers have more appeal when serve in frost rimmed glasses. For this - chill glasses in the refrigerator with the rim with a wet cloth. Dip the rim in a bowl of castor sugar. Now carefully pour the juice. Use colourful and twisted straws, etc.
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