by cheese1227
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12 ounces
frozen red raspberries
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1.5 cups
sugar
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Zest of two limes
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Juice of two limes
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24 ounces
Sparkling water
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Thin slices of lime for garnish
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Combine raspberries, sugar and zest in a saucepan and place over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly until the berries dissolve and the sugar melts. Only let it boil for 2-3 minutes as you don't want jam. After that time, take the syrup off the heat and let cool slightly. Stain the syrup.
Ask the hotline about this step!Fill a tall glass by half with ice. Pour 3 to 4 tablespoons of the syrup over the ice. Squeeze the juice of half a lime into the glass. Fill the glass to the top with sparkling water and garnish with a lime slice or two.
Ask the hotline about this step!Serve with a straw so that the drinker has the choice of either stirring or getting lots of syrup in the first sip (that latter is still my preference!).
Ask the hotline about this step!Great! Yes, it's a summer drink. But in midwinter when we're pining for hot weather -- well maybe not THIS hot -- we'll make these too!
This was my absolute favorite drink growing up in Boston and the only place I've been able to get them is on Cape Cod. Rather unfortunate as I live in Oklahoma now... Thanks so much for sharing a recipe! Yum :)
Did you get to try them yet? I'm curious to know how they turned out in OK!
Made it to serve with an onion confit/gruyere cheese appetizer when friends arrived for dinner on a warm evening. It was fantastic! Everyone loved the drinks and the recipe brought me back to my childhood in the Bronx, with lime rickeys at the candy store. I should have served them with 2 cent pretzel rods!
Excellent!! My siblings and I would always get 25 cents worth of penny candy if we made it through mass without incident. Those were the days!
This was delicious! At the end of our hot and sultry weekend, my son tweaked your recipe by adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Glad you liked it and I certainly like your son's addition!
what a fun recipe! congratulations!
raspberry and lime is one of my favorite flavor combinations. i'll be downing some of this in my very near future!
I made these! sort of.... =). I used blackberries and lemon instead of raspberries and lime... and added vodka. Everyone loved them, can't wait to try your combo!
Lee is my hometown. I like it much bettter now as an adult than I did a restless teen.
Small world...great-great grandpa Larkin settled there from Ireland and worked at High Lawn Farm for many years as their shepherd.
I grew up on High Lawn Farm milk and even tipped a few of those cows as the aforementioned restless youth....
Love it! And the headnotes, too. ;o)
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Lime, raspberries, sugar and sparkling water is all you need.
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We used frozen raspberries, and they worked out beautifully.
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cheese1227 has you add lime zest to the raspberries, giving the drink an extra zing.
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You heat the sugar, lime zest and raspberries just until the sugar is dissolved -- you don't want to cook raspberries because you want to preserve their fresh flavor.
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Then it's time to strain all the seeds out. Merrill got this fun job, and she faced it bravely.
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Time to assemble. First ice, then syrup.
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Then fresh lime juice.
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Pouring the sparkling water takes great concentration.
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Time for sipping.
This is a wonderful, refreshing, fun-to-make drink! Made them today for the first time; it's going into my keeper file.