Baltimore Lemonade
You're only minutes away from a delicious East Coast treat, Baltimore lemonade. Here's how to make this dead-simple "drink."
The recipe
Background
During the fourth quarter of the last century, Washinton, DC, hosted the American Folklife Festival on the Mall running from the capitol to the Washington Monument. It was a great event, and since it was summertime, the weather was hot and muggy. Hey, that's what you get for building on a swamp.
Anyway, a vendor was selling Baltimore Lemonade. It consisted of a large lemon with a hole cut in the top with a porous peppermint stick inserted. You sucked the peppermint stick like a straw and made delicious lemonade! Eventually, the peppermint dissolved, and you could squeeze out any remaining juice and enjoy that too!
Ingredients
Large lemons - you can also use oranges and small grapefruit!
Porous peppermint sticks like these from Giambri's Gourmet Sweets.
Or these from Nuts.com.
Directions
- Cut a hole at the top of the fruit, removing a core but not going all the way through.
- Insert peppermint stick.
- Enjoy!