Anyone who has ever been over to my family's house while my dad is entertaining or to his cousin, Beetle's house in Baltimore, has to have had one of these amazing summertime cocktails.
1 6 oz can lemonade concentrate
1 6 oz can of limejuice concentrate
Several handfuls of mint leaves
2 TBS sugar (or splenda to taste)
2 6 oz cans of water (12 oz total)
juice from 6 lemons and 10 limes
Combine concentrate with water in bowl. Add the juice from lemons and limes. Muddle/rind mint leaves with sugar in bowl until mint is smashed and fine. Add touches of water as necessary to grind the mint. Put mint mash with the liquid mix into the bowl. Run through strainer to remove mint leaves and excess pulp from lemons and limes. Squeeze the top of the strainer to make sure all juice gets through the pulpy part.
Serve as an "elixir", with about 2 Tbs south side with 2 oz liquor (bourbon, vodka), over a glas FULL of crushed ice, and fill rest of way with soda. Rim glass with lime.
*Can reduce the amount of water if you want it to be more concentrated. Can use splenda instead of real sugar to make it less caloric. Can do it without any sugar because lemon/lime concentrate has sugar in it - a more tart version. Definitely start with less sugar, and can add more later!
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