Friday Cocktail – Grown-up Lemonade

Oh, happy accident!

I meant to make this recipe for a Vodka Gimlet for cocktail hour.  It sounded really good.  But for some reason, my brain never saw the word “lime” in the recipe.  Never.  Ever.  When I printed the recipe, the photo came out yellow, so maybe that’s where I started thinking “lemon?”  I even put lemons on my store list – limes just never crossed my mind.  (I only realized that the original recipe called for lime juice when I went to link the recipe to this post!)

So I unknowingly made this drink with lemons not limes and decided that I had just made the best-tasting vodka-spiked lemonade ever!  I’ll have to work on that lime gimlet later…

Grown-Up Lemonade

4 parts good vodka

2 parts freshly squeezed lemon juice

1 part simple syrup (recipe below)

1.  Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.

2.  Shake well and strain into a glass.

Simple Syrup

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1.  Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan over medium-high heat.  Bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar melts.

2.  Remove from the heat and cool completely before using.  (Can be stored in the refrigerator indefinitely.)

Source:   Erroneously adapted 🙂  from The Way the Cookie Crumbles

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