Pear lemonade with sage
1 serving
5 minutes
There are a great many recipes for homemade lemonades, but this one is based on the design and method of making a cocktail, thanks to which it can be made in portions. For example, on a late summer evening, when you don't have a kilo or two of fruit or a large supply of soda at hand. Or when you don't want to mess around for a long time, but just want to drink.
1
Place a quarter of lime, sliced, in a tall narrow glass. Add sage leaves. Crush the ice: you can grind ice cubes in a food processor with sharp blades or wrap them in a kitchen towel and hit with a rolling pin or meat mallet.
- Lime: 25 g
- Fresh sage: 5 g
- Crushed ice: to taste
2
Add a couple of spoons of crushed ice to the glass and muddle it. A muddler is a plastic or wooden bartender's pestle used to extract juice from fresh fruits, berries, or herbs directly in the glass. If you don't have one, a tablespoon can work.
- Crushed ice: to taste
3
Fill the glass to the rim with ice. Carefully pour in the pear juice. You can use fresh juice or packaged; in the first case, you may need to sweeten the juice a bit more than the ready-made one.
- Crushed ice: to taste
- Pear juice: 100 ml
4
Add a little sugar syrup — literally half a teaspoon — and gently stir with a bar spoon. However, you can skip the syrup altogether and just pour sparkling water into the glass.
- Sparkling water: 50 ml
5
Garnish the ready lemonade with sage leaves or a thin half-moon slice of lime, hanging it on the edge of the glass. Serve immediately - with a straw or just like regular homemade lemonade poured from a pitcher.
- Fresh sage: 5 g
- Lime: 25 g