Cold Beverages

Homemade Chocolate Milk Powder
Full of flavor - you use much less powder than you do with the commercial, name brand powders!

2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1 small pinch of salt
1/3 cup non-dairy creamer

Pulse these ingredients together in a food processor or blender (or you can just whisk them together). Store in an air tight container. That's it.

To make actual chocolate milk with this: add 1 tablespoon of powder per cup of milk. Also to get it to dissolve easily and to avoid clumps in your milk, dissolve the powder in 1 tablespoon warm water before adding the milk. This will not make your milk warm, I promise!




Orange Julius
1/2 can orange juice concentrate
1 cup milk
1 cup water
1/2  cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 ice cubes

Place ingredients in blender and blend until smooth!  Serve.




Frozen Strawberry Lemonade Slushy
2 cups crushed or pebbled ice
1  cup sprite
1 heaping tablespoon country time lemonade powder
2-4 ripe strawberries

Put the ice and soda in a blender and pulse until the ice chunks are smooth. Add the lemonade powder and strawberries and blend until the powder has mixed throughout. Pour into glasses and serve.

Sonic's Cherry Limeade
1 can sprite
1 lime, cut into eight wedges
1/4  cup cherry grenadine

Place ice in a tall glass. Pour sprite over ice. Add the juice of three lime wedges then drop them into the glass. Add the cherry grenadine then serve with a straw.

Tucano's Brazilian Lime Drink
Pulsing the lime wedges and pressing the limes is kind of a pain, but the taste is worth it in the end.  No pain, no gain, right?

2 limes, each cut into eight pieces
3 cups cold water
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk

Pulse lime wedges in blender 5-10 times. Pour juice through a fine mesh strainer set over the top of a pitcher. Press limes with fingers to get all the juice out that you can. Discard rinds. Pour the strained juice back into the blender. Add water, sugar and sweetened condensed milk. Blend well. Pour mixed drink back into the pitcher.  Serve in glasses over ice.  Makes about three cups.

Copy Cat Hot Dog on a Stick Lemonade
1 cup lemon juice
7 cups water
1  can sugar

Combine. Add sliced lemons and ice and serve.



Martha's Old Fashioned Lemonade
1/2 can sugar
1 cup water
1 1/2 cup lemon juice
6 cups water

In large saucepan, heat sugar and 1 cup water over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and add lemon juice and the other six cups of water. Refrigerate until cool. Serve over ice.

Grandpa Blakesley's Homemade Atomic Root Beer
1 bottle root beer extract
5 pounds sugar
4  gallons water
5 pounds dry ice

In a five gallon container, mix extract, sugar and water. Add dry ice. Put lid on container but leave it so a little air can go in and out. Allow to stand for at least twenty minutes so it can carbonate and chill. Makes about 5 gallons.


Mock Champagne Punch
1  quart white grape juice, chilled
1  quart ginger ale, chilled

Mix together in large punch bowl. Serve.


Yummy Banana Slush
You have to make this at least a day ahead of time so the mixture can freeze, but yum! it's worth it.

4 cups sugar
6 cups water
2 cups orange juice
1/2 can lemon juice
4 cups pineapple juice
5 bananas, mashed
2 liters sprite

In a large saucepan dissolve sugar in water and bring to a boil; cool.  Blend remaining ingredients in large bowl.  Combine with sugar water.  Freeze in large plastic container.  Stir occasionally while it freezes.

When frozen and you are ready to serve, spoon into punch cups and pour sprite over the top.