{"id":7673,"date":"2014-07-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7673"},"modified":"2014-07-13T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T20:31:25","slug":"raspberry-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7673","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0216\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3896\/14288649139_d4023a2bc9.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3896\/14288649139_d4023a2bc9_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0216\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0198\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5545\/14495405733_a7e7bea7c5.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5545\/14495405733_a7e7bea7c5_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know when it&#8217;s a million degrees outside and all you want is some lemonade because it seems in your mind to be the only thing that&#8217;s going to hit the spot? We had one of those days, so Oliver suggested that we squeeze our own. And he wanted it\u00a0<em>pink.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could say that I had a recipe for you here; truth be told, I set out trying to figure one out. But like most of my recipes recently, I didn&#8217;t write it down. I started out with 10 lemons (1 1\/2 cups of lemon juice) and about a half cup of raspberries (the really juicy, falling apart ones), and a bunch of sugar. I started with 4 Tbsp of sugar and made a simple syrup using the sugar, 2 Tbsp water, and the raspberries, but when I added it to the lemon juice (and several cups of ice water), it was still very tart, so I kept adding dissolved sugar (in increments of 1 Tbsp sugar per 3 Tbsp warm water) until it tasted just right. Oliver and I tweeked it so much that I&#8217;m afraid by the end of the whole thing I had completely lost track of what the proportions were.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0201\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3870\/14495406173_1e854d8916.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3870\/14495406173_1e854d8916_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0201\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0205\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2897\/14452184806_8e6d0932c1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2897\/14452184806_8e6d0932c1_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0205\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0209\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5564\/14288668540_39383500c7.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5564\/14288668540_39383500c7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will say this, though. It was just the right amount of sweet and tart. Of course. But no worry! The whole thing was actually a lot of fun, like a science experiment. Oliver took his tasting job\u00a0<em>very\u00a0<\/em>seriously, dipping a spoon in periodically with a thoughtful look before declaring, &#8220;Too tart!&#8221; until finally, &#8220;It&#8217;s GREAT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it really was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know when it&#8217;s a million degrees outside and all you want is some lemonade because it seems in your mind to be the only thing that&#8217;s going to hit the spot? We had one of those days, so Oliver suggested that we squeeze our own. And he wanted it\u00a0pink.\u00a0 I wish I could say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raspberry Lemonade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,147],"tags":[101,146,93,171],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-montessori-inspired","tag-emil","tag-montessori","tag-oliver","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7677,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions\/7677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}