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Summerade Coolers

published by Jo Oliver on Jun 13, 2009

Delightful summer time cooler. The recipe is enough to fill eight tall glasses. The orange adds an extra kick of natural sweet to the typical glass of lemonade, without adding loads of sugar to the drink.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of sugar
  • 2 cups of water
  • 6 tangerines or oranges
  • 3 lemons
  • 1 lime
  • 1 bottle of Seltzer

Method

  1. Place Seltzer in refrigerator.
  2. Make a simple syrup: Bring 2 cups of water and 2 cups of sugar to a boil in a heavy saucepan; stirring constantly until sugar is completely dissolved. Set aside.
  3. Peel away the rinds of the fruit. You want to make sure just to get the rinds only, and not get the bitter white pith.
  4. Add peels to simple syrup.
  5. Squeeze fruits and add to simple syrup. Be careful not to let seeds drop in.
  6. Cover the syrup mixture and allow it to steep for at least 8 hours.
  7. Strain the simple syrup mixture into a medium- large pitcher. Discard rinds.
  8. Add 2-3 cups of ice to pitcher.
  9. Fill pitcher with seltzer.
  10. Garnish glasses or pitcher with slices of fresh orange, lemon, and/or lime.

21 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by Mr Ghaz
    June 13th, 2009 at 7:31 am #

    Nice ones..I liked it..Thanx for sharing this great recipe..looks healthy too..

  2. # 2 by Joe Dorish
    June 13th, 2009 at 8:27 am #

    Could go for a glass right now!

  3. # 3 by Mean lean gangster
    June 13th, 2009 at 8:36 am #

    good recipes. I’m a woman and I don’t know how to cook!

  4. # 4 by skylite
    June 13th, 2009 at 9:51 am #

    This sounds real nice for on a hot summery day :) Thanks for sharing.

  5. # 5 by Lauren Axelrod
    June 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am #

    Trying this today. It’s so hot out here.

  6. # 6 by DA Cournean
    June 13th, 2009 at 11:11 am #

    Sounds refreshing!

  7. # 7 by glassie
    June 13th, 2009 at 11:27 am #

    great coolant for a hot day and healthy too – thanks

  8. # 8 by NA Staffieri
    June 13th, 2009 at 3:17 pm #

    I can feel myself cooling down already.
    My wife makes the best sun-tea ever. I will have her try this. Thanks, Jo Oliver.

  9. # 9 by Goodselfme
    June 13th, 2009 at 6:49 pm #

    Thank you for the cool refreshment.

  10. # 10 by Ruby Hawk
    June 13th, 2009 at 7:04 pm #

    Yummy, What’s better than cool refreshment on a hot summer day?

  11. # 11 by Joie Schmidt
    June 13th, 2009 at 8:23 pm #

    Sounds nice & refreshing!

    Blessings.

    Sincerely,

    -Liane Schmidt.

  12. # 12 by papaleng
    June 14th, 2009 at 4:06 am #

    a very refreshing drink.

  13. # 13 by Duff D Moss
    June 14th, 2009 at 7:20 am #

    That sounds friggen brilliant. Will have to bookmark this for the summer (freaking freezing here at the moment)

  14. # 14 by Poetic Enigma
    June 15th, 2009 at 3:36 pm #

    Sounds pretty good, though I don’t like oranges, orange juice is alright…..thanks for sharing

  15. # 15 by Chris Stonecipher
    June 15th, 2009 at 8:23 pm #

    Jo,
    This looks delicious. I will try it today.

  16. # 16 by Ruby Hawk
    June 15th, 2009 at 8:56 pm #

    I’m back for another I like.

  17. # 17 by Uma Shankari
    June 15th, 2009 at 10:45 pm #

    Good recipe. Would use it, for sure

  18. # 18 by Melody SJAL
    June 18th, 2009 at 10:14 am #

    Hmmm…sounds cool.

  19. # 19 by Kate Smedley
    June 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 am #

    Duff’s comment sounds about right to me, can’t say more than that!

  20. # 20 by Chris Stonecipher
    July 8th, 2009 at 10:54 am #

    Just revisiting! Hope all is well with you.

  21. # 21 by B Nelson
    July 9th, 2009 at 5:01 pm #

    Refreshing!!!

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