Lemonade drinks

New drink ideas:

Pink lemonade. I am totally enamored of the bizarre libation that is pink lemonade. The one we are most familiar with comes frozen in a can, or perhaps out of a powdered packet. In my recipe perusings, I came across a number of recipes for "old fashioned" pink lemonades. Most of these involved cranberry juice, fresh lemon juice, and lots and lots of sugar.

I, of course, became deeply concerned with the origins of this titillating drink. According to good ol' Wikipedia, a variety of things are used to pinken your lemonade, including the juices of various red fruits (cherry, strawberry, raspberry, grapes, grapefruit, etc), grenadine, or artificial colorings. So a wide variety to choose from! But how did it start? Surely it didn't begin with the frozen cans? Was it originally made with cranberry juice as all those recipes suggested? Wiki has two bizarre attribution: some guy dropped his Red Hots into his lemonade by accident, and another dude allegedly, "used water dyed pink from a horse rider's red tights to make his lemonade." Ooook. So let's just pretend Julia Child's invented it by simply adding cranberry juice to lemonade. Problem solved. 

I also found a nice recipe on pinterest for a turquoise lemonade made with powdered lemonade mix, sugar, and blue raspberry Kool-Aid. It was kinda purty. Which got me to thinking, you need to add a bunch of sugar anyway to fresh lemon juice, so why not add Kool-Aid and make some lovely colored lemonades! It also reminded me of one of my favorite drinks as a youngster: lemonade and UV blue vodka.