Cocktails with Lemonade
Lemonade is a sweetened lemon drink of lemon juice or flavoring, sugar and water. Depending on the style, it is still and cloudy or clear and carbonated.
How it's used
It tops a long drink with sweetness, lemon and, in the fizzy version, bubbles. It is already sweet, so a drink topped with it needs little or no other sugar.
Substitutes for Lemonade
Sprite or 7UP
Replace a British or Australian fizzy lemonade, measure for measure. They add a faint lime edge.
Homemade lemonade
Mix 20 ml of lemon juice, 12 ml of 2:1 syrup and 68 ml of soda water for each 100 ml. For still lemonade, use plain water.
British lemonade
Carries far less sugar. To match it, cut the syrup to about 5 ml per 100 ml.
Storage
Sealed it keeps for months. Opened, the carbonated version goes flat within a day, and homemade lemonade separates and needs a stir before it is measured.
