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Summer Breeze

By Brini Maxwell

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Editor's note: This recipe is from Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living. For Maxwell's tips on throwing a summer pool party, click here.

This drink is perfect for breakfast celebrations. It's light and fresh with the tang of citrus.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 1 serving

Ingredients

1 1/2 ounces Bacardi Limon
1 ounce pink grapefruit juice
1 ounce orange juice
Dash of grenadine
1 Maraschino cherry, for garnish

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Shake all the ingredients (except the cherry) together in a shaker filled with ice. Strain into a martini glass, drop in the cherry, and enjoy!

  2. Summer Breeze sans spirit

    Step 2

    For those of you out there who don't imbibe, here's a nice variation on the Summer Breeze that won't leave you three sheets to the wind.

  3. Step 3

    3 ounces pink grapefruit juice

    Step 4

    5 ounces lemon-lime soda

    Step 5

    1 orange wheel, for garnish

    Step 6

    1 Maraschino cherry, for garnish

    Step 7

    Pour the grapefruit juice into a tumbler or highball glass filled with ice cubes and top it off with lemon-lime soda. With a wooden skewer, pierce the orange wheel through both sides of the rind and add the cherry. Add to the drink and serve.

Reprinted with permission from Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living by Brini Maxwell. © 2005 Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
TagsCocktailAlcoholBeveragesRumAmericanGrapefruitCitrusFruitOrangeQuickEasy5 Ingredients or Fewer30 Minutes or LessSummerCookbooks
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