Recipe

December 30, 2024

Jim’s Cranberry Cooler

Recipe: Jim Helman

This drink is delicious with or without liquor!

Ingredients

Without Alcohol

  • 2 TB of fresh lime juice (I use the new bottled lime juice concentrate called Quick)
  • 2 TB Elderflower sparkling water
  • A few frozen cranberries for garnish
  • A sprint of fresh mint
  • Cranberry juice to fill the glass (I use low sugar, diet cranberry juice)
  • Lots of ice

With Alcohol

  • Add either Gin or Vodka
  • Jim likes John Sleeman Vodka
  • Lynda Reeves likes hers with Tanqueray 10 Gin (very light — 1/2- 1 ounce).

Directions

Yield: 1

  1. Fill a glass with ice.
  2. Add lime juice, cranberry juice, elderflower sparkling water and alcohol (optional)
  3. Garnish with mint or cranberries
  4. Serve!
Author: Lynda Reeves