Week 15 - Slush

 Slush

Recipe 15 - 52 in 2022

Drink #1

    I figured it was time to plug in one of the drink recipes and decided this was a good week to do it. I could make a drink to enjoy with my Week 14 appetizer, Josefinas (see previous post). This recipe is noted as being by Susan Poteete and is included in Tried And True by Dell Barnes. Tried And True was printed by Dell Barnes in 1992. The copy I have is signed by Dell Barnes "For Janet. Dell Barnes". 

    I didn't have a requirement that my drink recipe should have alcohol, but I ended up finding a recipe which called for alcohol. Since I'd decided to make an alcoholic drink, I thought it best to make over the weekend. This is really a two step process. You have to make the mix and then place it in the freezer, to get slushy. To serve, you remove a container of slush and use a fork or spoon to break up into slushy bits, so you can serve. You could try this with ginger ale and even switch up the flavors of juice. Try pineapple and lemonade or even mango; strawberry or raspberry with lemonade or limeade, if you can find these frozen. My modifications in italics.

Ingredients:

1 large can frozen orange juice  (I used a standard size can)

1 large can frozen lemonade or limeade (I used lemonade; a standard size)

1 cup sugar (I used a full cup, but I'd be interested to see how this would be with less added sugar)

1 cup strong tea (I used black tea)

7 cups water

2 cups bourbon, gin or vodka (I used gin. Also, I think tequila would probably work well also)

7-Up (I don't really drink soda, so I just got diet Wal-Mart store brand lemon-lime soda, because I didn't want to spend a lot)

Directions:

Mix together all ingredients except the soda. Freeze in plastic containers (I used three Tupperware/Rubbermaid containers).  To serve, spoon 1/2 cup of the slush into a short glass and add 1/2 cup of 7-Up. I used a fork to break up the mix after I removed from the freezer. I used a large ice cream scoop for easy scooping and dropping into my cup. I also didn't really measure the soda; I'm sure it was a bit more than a 1/2 cup, but I still enjoyed my slush drink. 

Slush Mix

Slush!

Tampa Tea

 Tampa Tea

    I didn't intentionally pick this drink to make (to enjoy with my fried cheese balls appetizer), but it just so happens that it is Super Bowl Weekend and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are playing in the game.  I am rooting for the Bucs, because the brother of a co-worker friend of mine is on the Bucs. In his first NFL season, he has the chance to play in a Super Bowl. 

    This recipe is in the 1958 Good Housekeeping's Book of Ice Creams & Cool Drinks cookbook. I will be making more recipes from this book, because "Hello! It has ice cream in the title!!!" This drink is super, super easy. It is just black tea, orange juice, sugar, lime juice and ice water. Your base is black tea, so you make that first, by boiling water and steeping two teabags for at least 3 minutes. Stir in a 1/2 cup of sugar to the hot tea, until the sugar is dissolved. I mixed my 2 1/2 cups of orange juice into my 4 cups of ice water and added the 1/2 cup of lime juice, then stirred in the tea. 

    This tea drink is good, but I would make it again with less sugar and would probably even try it without the extra 1/2 cup of sugar. I also would make a stronger tea base with maybe 4 teabags instead of 2 teabags. Do it to your taste though.  Use all the sugar. Add more or less tea.  The recipe calls for pouring 8 tall ice filled, glasses of this concoction and garnishing with fresh pineapple fingers or sprigs of mint.  

    One last suggestion is that I feel that this drink would make a good base for a mixed alcoholic drink. Try gin, vodka, tequila, bourbon or whiskey.  I have the first three and am not a big fan of the last two, so that's a no-go for me on the bourbon and whiskey. Make sure that if you have little ones in your household, you add liquor to only the glasses for adults.  

This is my oh, so helpful helper, Rooster.