The recipe
- ½Juice of half a lime
- 1½ ozRaspberry syrup45 ml
- 8 ozSeltzer240 ml
How to make it
- 1Fill a highball halfway with ice.
- 2Squeeze in the lime and drop the squeezed pieces into the glass.
- 3Pour in the seltzer, then stir in the raspberry syrup.
Garnish: Extra lime (optional).
Variations: Raspberry is the New England style; New York fountains use cherry syrup (Sip’n Soda: 2 oz cherry syrup, juice of half a lime, 12 oz seltzer). A plain Lime Rickey is sweetened with simple syrup.
Yankee’s recipe makes its own raspberry syrup (raspberries simmered in 1:1 sugar and water) and uses two lime quarters, 1 cup of seltzer and 3 tbsp syrup a glass.
The ratio
¼ : 1 : 5½
In parts, a Lime Rickey is ¼ lime, 1 raspberry and 5½ soda. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.
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