denise@cca.UUCP (Denise Higgins) (05/14/85)
I'Ve Recently Had A Few Tasty Non-Alcoholic Drinks Lately That I'D
Like To Share. It Has Been So Nice To Offer These To Those Not
Wishing Alcoholic Drinks Or Not Able To Consume Alcohol...Refreshing
Change To Simple Soda Or Basic Juice. Please Share Any You Might Have.
Cran/Grape
Vanilla Ice Cream
Blend And Drink (Yum!) - Bet Kids Would Love This One!
This One Must Be Done In Order So That The Colors Of The Juices
Will Layer.
Ice First
1/3 Pineapple Juice
1/3 Orange Juice
1/3 Cranberry Juice (Subsitute With Red Wine For Those Wishing An
Alcoholic Drink)
Dress Glass With Pineapple Or Orange Piecepolard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard) (05/24/85)
In article <2531@cca.UUCP> denise@cca.UUCP (Denise Higgins) writes: > >I'Ve Recently Had A Few Tasty Non-Alcoholic Drinks Lately That I'D >Like To Share. It Has Been So Nice To Offer These To Those Not >Wishing Alcoholic Drinks Or Not Able To Consume Alcohol > >Cran/Grape >Vanilla Ice Cream > >Ice First >1/3 Pineapple Juice >1/3 Orange Juice >1/3 Cranberry Juice (Subsitute With Red Wine For Those Wishing An > Alcoholic Drink) > Dress Glass With Pineapple Or Orange Piece Sounds delicious, but they're Calorie City. Does anyone have ideas for low-calorie drinks that are tasty and don't rely on saccharin or Nutra-Sweet? Thanks, -- Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.) {ihnp4,cbosgd,amd}!fortune!polard N.B: The words in this posting do not necessarily express the opinions of me, my employer, or any AI project.
wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart) (05/25/85)
> Any non-sugar-loaded suggestions?
Mint teas can be good iced or hot. It's best if you grow your own and use
it fresh, but even dried stuff or commercial herbal teas can be good.
There are a number of different varieties/flavors of mints - aside from
spearmint and peppermint, I've growm apple and pineapple mints.
(Be careful where you plant mint, though - it will take over any available
dirt given a year or two. A lawnmower seems to be the most constructive way
to control the stuff.)
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Bill Stewart 1-201-949-0705
AT&T Bell Labs, Room 4K-435, Holmdel NJ
{ihnp4,allegra,cbosgd,vax135}!ho95c!wcssunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) (05/25/85)
Try this one for low calories:
Take a fresh lemon, cut in half, save one half for your second glass full.
Take a fresh lemon half, squeeze the juice from it and put that into a
tall glass. Fill half full with fresh water, stir, add as many ice cubes
as will fit, and then top-off with more water and stir again. Lemonade.
The trick is to cut down on the amount of lemon juice you put in a glass
of water to the point where you don't need to sweeten it with sugar.
Sunny
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{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) (05/26/85)
Try iced mint tea with equal amounts of lime-aid. Add sugar if the lime is
too tart. Make the lime aid from fresh limes, or in a pinch from frozen
concentrate.
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Havard University Science Center phone: 617-495-1270
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138df@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Fox) (05/28/85)
> Sounds delicious, but they're Calorie City. Does anyone have ideas for > low-calorie drinks that are tasty and don't rely on saccharin or Nutrasweet? One thing that'll reduce the calorie count is using nonfat dry milk instead of ice cream. I also use it in my coffee, especially since I read the ingredients of Cremora. :-). Not using some type of sweetener means either using very sweet fruits, or adjusting your taste buds to a blander drink. My favorite evening treat: In a blender put: Ice Nonfat dry milk Water Lo-cal hot chocolate mix (Nutrasweet is my preference) This is great by itself or with alcohol. Putting Triple Sec in gives it a wonderful orange flavor. Hmmm - how could that be done without alcohol? Dave Fox ...!dual!ptsfa!df
walker@hplabsb.UUCP (06/11/85)
<> Has anyone tried making homemade rootbeer? I happened across a bottle of extract (McCormick brand) in the store recently and have made up several batches so far. Shopping around, I found that Hires brand extract is also available. The process is fairly simple: 1) mix 2 cups sugar, 1 gallon water, 3 tsps. extract in large pot. add about 1 tsp. of baking yeast, having predissolved it in a cup of warm water. 2) fill clean pop bottles to within 1/2 inch of the top with the resulting brew. cap the bottles with a bottle-capping press (I got one for $30 at the local hardware store... caps are about a penny apiece). 3) let sit in a warm place for at least 2 days. move to the refrigerator. when cool, enjoy! One might think offhand that this would produce an alchoholic beverage, but it apparently doesn't. When beer is made, it is allowed to brew for a time before being bottled. When making rootbeer, the mix is bottled immediately. Since the yeast makes CO2 so rapidly, it kills itself off by its own generated pressure before it can make any appreciable alchohol. (one book I read said that 60psi is not uncommon ... so don't try using weak bottles). It turns out to be pretty economical. Neglecting the cost of the bottle capper, it works out to about 10 cents a bottle. (20 cents / quart) My question is: Has anyone made any other naturally carbonated drinks along this line? How about other flavors? (Say apple juice, sasparilla <sp>, cherry ... etc.) Any other tips or suggestions? How about other uses for the bottle capper? thanks, Rick Walker (...hplabs!hplabsb!walker@hp-merc)
ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ginger Grover) (06/12/85)
> 3) let sit in a warm place for at least 2 days. move > to the refrigerator. when cool, enjoy! > We made root beer sometimes when I was a kid, and the process was pretty much the same as yours, except, as I remember, the brewing time was two weeks, so we generally put raisins in the bottles to make them ferment faster. One or two raisins is normal, but naturally I had to try filling up a bottle with raisins and then adding the root beer. After about ten days, I opened it; the geiser sprayed every surface in the kitchen, including the ceiling - took me a couple hours to clean it up. Ginger ihnp4!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ginger
dube@oblio.DEC (Linda Dube, LTN1-1/F15, 229-6321) (06/12/85)
Oh, what memories! My mother regularly made root beer some 30+ years ago, when I was very young; it was, in fact, the only carbonated beverage I remember from those early years. Mom always bottled it in canning jars (the type with the glass lids and wire bales). I don't know if this type of bottling is more hazardous than regular capped bottles (I do remember an occasional accident), but this might be an alternative for people who have canning jars and don't want to invest in a capper. I think I'm going to look for extract when I go shopping this week... Linda Dube
tc@amd.UUCP (Tom Crawford) (06/14/85)
*REPLACE THIS LINE WITH SOME ROOT BEER* We used to made home-made root beer when I was a kid. Sometimes the stuff would blow the caps off the top of the bottles (yuk, what a sticky mess!). We used to bottle the stuff in old beer bottles and would pretend we we were drinking beer. What wonderful memories USENET causes. Tom Crawford amd!tc