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Monday, May 26. 2008

Summer Drinks: The Cape Codder

Few summer drinks are more refreshing than the Cape Codder.

I think it tastes best with a little lime squeezed into it, like this recipe. (Come to think if it, most things taste better with a little fresh lime.)

Try a Cape Codder today.

My mixology research revealed that the Cape Codder is one of a family of cocktails known as "New England Highballs." I didn't know drinks had formal categories. I am still learning about the world.

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For years, since I had to give up alcohol for the most part, due to its disagreement with my medications and my wish not to fall down a lot, I have substituted cranberry juice [or cranapple juice] combined with club soda. This gives one the righteous feeling that The Children's Hour, when all smart people stow away the children and have a little drinkie, still has something of a glory it once had. Looking at the recipe cited above, I'd say that a little club soda added to the mix might give you all an additional glow. And you get to have vodka.

Marianne
#1 Marianne Matthews on 2008-05-26 12:47 (Reply)
Whatever it takes to keep you going, MM.
You are the only grown-up here!
#1.1 BD on 2008-05-26 13:15 (Reply)
And if you indulge a little too much, and turn up gouty in a few days, Pure Cherry Juice--got to be the pure stuff--will fix up your aches and pains--in a few days. Then, if you quit drinking booze and eating rich foods, and have a litte Pure Cherry Juice(black is best) each morning and evening--you'll begin feeling like that 'new man' you always knew you were.

Good for arthritis, too.

http://www.joint-pain.com/cherry-juice-gout.html

Thank you blogger Teresita for this advice that I pass along. Really works!
#2 bob on 2008-05-26 13:35 (Reply)
Here in Southwest, New England high balls ain't something to drink but to be avoided by fair folk.

But this only applys to those of us not takin' in by yanks, others being more gay by choice will try any and all.

Put a another way, the rest of the wildlife follow their own predilections.
#3 Leag on 2008-05-26 14:42 (Reply)
That comment isn't very MULTICULTURALLY TOLERANT, young man.
#3.1 BD on 2008-05-26 16:41 (Reply)
Da go Te' and Ya'at'eeh!

Beer with Beam chasers work, well enough, when slinging with tribalists.

Indigenes in this part of the country are the penultimate tolerants of multiculturalism.

I'm still taking lessons from them.
#3.1.1 Leag on 2008-05-26 21:19 (Reply)
the "summer drink" hangar one rasperry vodka, a squeeze of key lime(the little ones from fla.) ice, splash of tonic and a little sunshine. A round of golf wouldn't hurt either.
#4 opie on 2008-05-26 15:53 (Reply)

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