Category: Beverages

TIP OF THE DAY: How To Make Simple Syrup, An Easy Recipe

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[1] This cocktail (recipe below) uses homemade lemon-vanilla simple syrup (photo © Nielsen-Massey). [2] Just mix equal parts of sugar and water, plus any flavorings (photo © Zulka Sugar). [3] Simple syrup is the ideal sweetener for iced drinks: It doesn’t need stirring to dissolve (photo © The Wayfarer | NYC). [4] Just as with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fun With Nonalcoholic Beverages

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Lavender lemonade, a truly great experience (as is lavender iced tea). Here’s the recipe. Photo © Edith Frimcu | Dreamstime.   Many home trends in foods and how to serve them come from restaurants, where chefs are constantly on the look for new ways to tempt customers. While mixologists have long been creating menus of…
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PRODUCT: Joe’s Half & Half, Tea & Lemonade Drink

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The new Half & Half champion. Photo courtesy Red Jacket Orchards.   Arnold Palmer, make way for Joe Nicholson: There’s a new tea and lemonade blend in town. In a Palm Springs country club in the the 1960s, with his order of a glass of half lemonade—a drink he mixed at home—golf legend Arnold Palmer…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Hot Chocolate From Scratch

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Delicious Moonstruck chocolate bars melted into milk for hot chocolate. Photo courtesy Moonstruck.   It’s below zero in quite a few areas of the country today. As we write this, in Fargo it’s 2°F, with the wind chill making it feel like -18°. In our own municipality, New York City, it’s 14°F, with a wind…
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