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July 4th Cocktails

Peach Tea Lemonade Recipe

Happy 4th! I’m having a hard time adjusting to being in Chicago for this holiday. Usually I’m in Michigan eating hot dogs, swimming in the lake, and trying to see how many s’mores I can consume. Since the holiday falls on a Wednesday this year, it didn’t make sense to head back. So, here I am trying to compensate by making enough cocktails to forget how much I miss trees and grass.

My dad visited this past weekend and his wife, Tami, LOVES sweet tea vodka with lemonade and I ended up buying a bunch of booze for their visit and now I need to figure out how to drink it all! I am also a huge fan of vodka lemonades and had some Peach Pucker leftover from my White Sangria, so I decided to mix it up a bit and make a Peach Tea Lemonade Cocktail!

Peach Tea Lemonade Cocktail

Peach Tea Lemonade Recipe:

2 oz. Sweet Tea Vodka
2 oz. Peach Pucker
6 oz. Lemonade (recipe below)
Lemon slices for garnish

Lemonade Ingredients:

  • 1-1/4 cups lemon juice (about 8 lemons)
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3-3/4 cups water

Preparation:

  1. Juice all 8 lemons. I used a juicer, so I had to peel them all first, then put them in the juicer and let it pour into a measuring cup. You should have at least 1 cup juice to 3 cups waterHomemade Lemonade Recipe
  2. Warm 2 cups of water and pour in sugar, stirring until dissolved. The sugar will dissolve much quicker in warm water than in cold
  3. I strained my lemon juice, to avoid pulp in my lemonade, directly into the pitcherHomemade Lemonade
  4. After the sugar has dissolved and the water has cooled, pour into pitcher with lemon juice
  5. Add the remaining 1-3/4 cup cold water to pitcher and stir
  6. Fill glass with ice and slices 2 slices of lemon
  7. Add peach pucker and sweet tea vodka to glass
  8. Top with lemonade, stir, and serveSweet Tea Vodka Lemonade

Molly isn’t enjoying this July 4th much. Even her walks are cut a little short because its 103-degrees here in Chicago. Fingers crossed I can see some fireworks from the rooftop tonight and that Molly doesn’t get too scared and pee on the rug!

Molly the terrier!


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