how to eat like a bird: a Raspberry Lime Rickey

A Raspberry Lime Rickey is the perfect summer drink if you like tart, sweet, fizzy. The one at Teany is so good on a hot summer day that I have to stop myself from guzzling it all down within the span of a minute. Because there goes $4 right there, and I'll want another. So I decided to attempt it at home, which wasn't much of a stretch as there's a recipe right in the Teany cookbook.

Because I'd eaten a whole bag of potato chips with some onion dip that same day, I decided to skip the sugar in this and substitute agave nectar, which is a natural fructose that has a low glycemic index. (It can be found in any health food store). But the result was lacking. The agave nectar was sweet enough but didn't properly stand up to the tartness of the berries and lime. It was a fine drink for someone looking to flavor their water, but for anyone who wants to sit up a bit straighter and say "Ahh...so that's what a Rickey is..." I would suggest following the original recipe below, even going so far as to be generous with the proportions of puree, sugar, and lime to soda water. (The Rickey at Teany used to be pallid...like tea, but now it really packs a punch.) At most, it's only 2 tablespoons of sugar per tall glass, anyway. Just forgo the chips and dip.

Adapted from Teany Book: Stories, Food, Romance, Cartoons and, Of Course, Tea

Raspberry Lime Rickey

1 tablespoon of raspberry puree
1 1/2 tablespoons of lime juice
1 1/2 tablespoons of simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water boiled together)
8 ounces soda water

raspberry puree: 1 pint of raspberries blended with 2 tablespoons of lime juice and 2 tablespoons of sugar (2 1/2 tablespoons if raspberries are frozen)

Comments

Some background info: Agave nectar should not cost more than $1/oz. I
live in the 20854 zip code, so the closer to that I can get agave
nectar, the better. I would start looking in either health/natural
foods stores, gourmet food stores, and Mexican markets, as agave is
chiefly grown in Jalisco, Mexico.

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