The recipe
- ¼ ozGrenadine7.5 ml
- 2 tspLemon juice10 ml
- 5½ ozGinger ale165 ml
How to make it
- 1Chill a highball.
- 2Pour in the grenadine, lemon juice and ginger ale.
- 3Fill the glass with ice.
Garnish: A lemon wheel and a maraschino cherry.
Variations: Many bars now use lemon-lime soda, or a mix of ginger ale and lemon-lime soda, and some add orange juice. BBC Good Food uses lime: 150 ml ginger ale, 25 ml lime juice and 15 ml grenadine.
Amounts are Difford’s (¼ oz grenadine, ⅓ oz lemon, 5½ oz ginger ale). The drink as Wikipedia describes it is only ginger ale and a splash of grenadine, without the citrus.
The ratio
1 : 1¼ : 22
In parts, a Shirley Temple is 1 grenadine, 1¼ lemon and 22 ginger ale. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.
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