This strawberryade is probably our favourite non-alcoholic drink to serve up at summer parties.
Sweet with just the right amount of sharpness from the added lemon juice, and packed with fresh strawberries. Where possible, it's best to use fresh, really ripe, in-season British strawberries, and they will give the best, sweetest flavour. Out of strawberry season, try frozen ones (defrosted) for the best taste. Imported strawberries are often disappointingly flavourless and watery. Serve over plenty of ice, and you can dilute it with fizzy water, too, if you want something with sparkle (or with champagne for something even fancier).
Ingredients
- 250g strawberries, hulled
- 3 lemons, scrubbed
- 75g caster sugar
- 750ml boiling water
WEIGHT CONVERTER
Method
- Crush the strawberries roughly with a potato masher or stick blender in a bowl.
- Pare the rind thinly from half the lemons with a vegetable peeler making sure to leave as much white pith behind as possible or this will the make the strawberryade bitter.
- Halve and squeeze the juice from all the lemons then mix into the strawberries with the sugar.
- Pour on the boiling water, stir well to mix then cover and leave to cool place. Transfer to the fridge overnight.
- Next day, strain if liked, and pour into a bottle, seal and chill in the fridge until needed. Use within 2 days. Serve undiluted with ice or mixed half and half with sparkling water for children.
Top tip for making strawberryade
For hot days, you can make this strawberryade into delicious ice lollies. Just freeze it in your usual ice lolly trays.
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Octavia Lillywhite is an award-winning food and lifestyle journalist with over 15 years of experience. With a passion for creating beautiful, tasty family meals that don’t use hundreds of ingredients or anything you have to source from obscure websites, she’s a champion of local and seasonal foods, using up leftovers and composting, which, she maintains, is probably the most important thing we all can do to protect the environment.
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