Fourth of July Beverage Recipes
Watermelon & Strawberry Lemonade
Ingredients
8 cups cubed seeded watermelon
1 cup fresh strawberries, halved
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup white sugar
2 cups water
Directions
Combine the watermelon, strawberries, lemon juice, sugar, and water in a blender. Blend until smooth.
Orange Cream Milk Punch
Ingredients
1 quart vanilla ice cream
2 pints orange sherbet
1 (16 ounce) can lemon-lime soda
1 quart cold milk
Directions
Place the ice cream and sherbet in a punch bowl. Pour in the milk and lemon-lime soda. Stir gently and serve immediately.
Party Punch
Ingredients
3 (3 ounce) packages gelatin mix
4 cups white sugar
13 cups boiling water
2 (46 fluid ounce) cans pineapple juice
1 (16 ounce) bottle lemon juice
2 (2 liter) bottles ginger ale, chilled
Directions
In a large bowl, combine gelatin and sugar. Stir in boiling water until mixture is dissolved. Stir in pineapple juice and lemon juice concentrate. Divide into 2 containers, and freeze until solid.
To serve, place gelatin mixture in punch bowl, and chop into pieces. Pour in ginger ale
Luscious Slush Punch
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups white sugar
6 cups water
2 (3 ounce) packages strawberry flavored gelatin mix
1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice
2/3 cup lemon juice
1 quart orange juice
2 (2 liter) bottles lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
Directions
In a large saucepan, combine sugar, water, and strawberry flavored gelatin. Boil for 3 minutes. Stir in pineapple juice, lemon juice, and orange juice. Divide mixture in half, and freeze in 2 separate containers.
When ready to serve, place the frozen contents of one container in a punch bowl, and stir in 1 bottle of lemon-lime soda until slushy.
Cherry Limeade
Ingredients
2 (12 fluid ounce) cans frozen limeade concentrate
1 (2 liter) bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained and juice reserved
1 lime
Directions
Pour both cans of concentrated limeade into a large pitcher. Mix in lemon-lime soda. Stir in reserved cherry juice. Squeeze juice from lime into mixture, then slice and set aside. Stir well and serve over ice. Garnish with cherries and lime slices.
Raspberry Lemonade
Ingredients
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate
3 cups water
3/4 teaspoon lime juice
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
1 cup crushed ice
1 cup fresh raspberries, garnish
1 cup fresh mint, garnish
Directions
In a large punch bowl, combine raspberry lemonade concentrate, water and lime juice. Stir in lemon-lime soda and crushed ice. Garnish each glass with a fresh raspberry and a mint leaf.
Strawberry Orange Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
1 cup chopped fresh strawberries
1 cup orange juice
1 banana
10 cubes ice
1 tablespoon sugar
Directions
In a blender, combine all ingredients. Blend until smooth.
Triple Fruit Smoothie
Ingredients
1 kiwi, sliced
1 banana, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup strawberries
1 cup ice cubes
1/2 cup orange juice
1 (8 ounce) container peach yogurt
Directions
In a blender, blend all ingredients until smooth.
Lemonade Punch
Ingredients
1 (6 ounce) can frozen pink lemonade concentrate
1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
2 (6 ounce) cans frozen pink lemonade concentrate
1 (2 liter) bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
1 (750 milliliter) bottle red wine
1 orange, sliced
1 lemon, sliced
Directions
In a pitcher, mix together 1 can lemonade with 1 can of water. Pour mixture into an ice cube tray, and place a cherry in each cube. Freeze until solid.
In a punch bowl, combine 2 cans lemonade concentrate, lemon-lime soda and red wine. Stir in lemonade ice cubes, and garnish with maraschino cherries, orange slices and lemon slices.
Creamy Limeade
Ingredients
2 limes
1/2 cup sugar
3 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
3 cups water
ice
Directions
Wash limes thoroughly. Cut off the ends and slice into eight wedges. Place limes in a blender with remaining ingredients.
Blend in an electric blender, pulsing 5 times. Strain through a fine mesh strainer to remove rinds. Serve over ice.
