Non Alcoholic Weekend Fruit Drinks

Featured Cookbook:
coverFrozen Drinks : With or Without the Buzz

Fruity drinks, rich drinks, chocolate drinks, fun drinks, coffee drinks, kid drinks and more!  Best part? 65 recipes for under $10.00. Most of these recipes can be made with or without alcohol.

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Recently one of our readers began looking for a recipe for hibiscus tea which tastes a bit like Kool-Aid.  After finding other enthusiasts, but no recipe (know one?) our ingenious reader began creating new fruit drinks that will liven up any weekend get-together this summer! All of the featured recipes here are non-alcoholic.

Watermelon Fruit Drink

Ingredients

  • Cut up watermelon, seeded, and pureed (you need about 2 cups for this recipe)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup water- plus enough to make 1/2 gallon

Bring sugar and water to a slow boil in a medium saucepan, stirring constantly. When mixture is just at boiling point remove from heat & allow to cool. While it is cooling, seed & puree 2 cups of watermelon. In a pitcher, mix 1 cup sugar syrup with 2 cups watermelon puree & enough  water to fill up pitcher.  Serve over ice.

Variations:

  • You can use 1 cup lime/1 cup syrup for Mexican limeade
  • Try this recipe  with mango's.
  • Get crazy, try strawberry limeade.

More Summertime Recipes:

WB00726_.gif (618 bytes)Strawberry Banana Fruit Drink

WB00726_.gif (618 bytes)Fresh Lemon-Limeade

WB00726_.gif (618 bytes)Mango Milk Shake

WB00726_.gif (618 bytes)Strawberry-Kiwi Smoothie

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