Not just slushies! 10 mouth-watering, alcoholic frozen drinks - from a strawberry shortcake to a Miami vice
This weekend is about to be deeply unpleasant for everyone in the UK. The heat will be scorching and relentless, and we will all seek to cool off in any way possible. Drinks at room temperature will no longer suffice. We have to be serious, and that means eliminating the frozen variety. However, store-bought slushies are often fluorescent, full of chemicals, and extremely off-tasting. Instead, let's make our own. Below are 10 sophisticated and refreshing non-alcoholic frozen drinks for adults to get you through the next few days. May God have mercy on our souls.
Four years ago, this newspaper rounded up six food journalists and asked them what their favorite refreshing drinks were. They're all worth trying, but for the purposes of this list, I'm going to focus on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's strawberry shortcake. You can do it in seconds: squeeze three oranges and a lemon and a half, and toss with three handfuls of strawberries and as many ice cubes as you can handle. The resulting drink is not only sweet but beautiful to look at. Imagine watching this in a jug beaded with condensation. How could you not?
Citrus SlushyMany slushy recipes will ask you to prepare the base of the drink before mixing it with ice. Rachel Gurjar's Citrus Granita, on the other hand, does something slightly ingenious with the ingredients. The components of citrus fruits (oranges and lemons) are peeled, cut into rings and then frozen. And that's what's mixed up. Granted, you need a few ice cubes to puff it up, but the resulting drink — sweetened with maple syrup, but complicated with salt and cayenne pepper — is the exact opposite of a Tango Ice Blast.
This weekend is about to be deeply unpleasant for everyone in the UK. The heat will be scorching and relentless, and we will all seek to cool off in any way possible. Drinks at room temperature will no longer suffice. We have to be serious, and that means eliminating the frozen variety. However, store-bought slushies are often fluorescent, full of chemicals, and extremely off-tasting. Instead, let's make our own. Below are 10 sophisticated and refreshing non-alcoholic frozen drinks for adults to get you through the next few days. May God have mercy on our souls.
Four years ago, this newspaper rounded up six food journalists and asked them what their favorite refreshing drinks were. They're all worth trying, but for the purposes of this list, I'm going to focus on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's strawberry shortcake. You can do it in seconds: squeeze three oranges and a lemon and a half, and toss with three handfuls of strawberries and as many ice cubes as you can handle. The resulting drink is not only sweet but beautiful to look at. Imagine watching this in a jug beaded with condensation. How could you not?
Citrus SlushyMany slushy recipes will ask you to prepare the base of the drink before mixing it with ice. Rachel Gurjar's Citrus Granita, on the other hand, does something slightly ingenious with the ingredients. The components of citrus fruits (oranges and lemons) are peeled, cut into rings and then frozen. And that's what's mixed up. Granted, you need a few ice cubes to puff it up, but the resulting drink — sweetened with maple syrup, but complicated with salt and cayenne pepper — is the exact opposite of a Tango Ice Blast.
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