Summer provides no shortage of reasons celebrate; New Year’s, Christmas, Australia Day and sunny Saturday afternoons, all great reasons to have your friends round. Delight and refresh your guests with these great non-alcoholic, handmade and delicious beverages.
5 reasons to love homemade sodas
- Impress your guests and confirm your status as an entertaining pro with soda from scratch
- Refreshing sodas our top tip to keep cool this summer.
- These recipes increase your fruit intake and top up your antioxidants
- Unexpectedly easy to prepare.
- Delicious!
Bonus #6 – fun-up these soda with a splash of vodka or substitute the sparkling water for your favourite sparkling wine.
Pink Lemonade
Makes approx. 1.5L
Blend
2 lemons, ends cut off and sliced into thin wedges
100g white sugar
100g frozen raspberries
250ml still water
Sieve into a large jug
Add 750ml sparkling water
Pour over ice, to serve.
Sparkling Blood Orangeade
Makes approx. 1.5L
Pulp
2 blood oranges
2 oranges
Sieve into a large jug
Add 1L ginger ale
Pour over ice, to serve.
N.B. Aim for 1 part juice to 2 parts ginger ale
If you are really strapped for time we love these handcrafted, organic sodas from Carlson’s Handcrafted.