Lemonade Stand for My Garden
by Traute Klein, biogardener
Lemonade Stand?
Would you like to make a bit of money? Maybe you would just like to serve your friends a refreshing drink on a hot day. You could set up a lemonade stand in your garden or on the sidewalk in front of your garden.
How about serving something better than lemonade? How about Snapple? Not everyone likes lemonade. I don't. It is too sour for me. Everyone likes Snapple, though, and I know how you can make it for less money than you could make lemonade. I have read the list of ingredients on Snapple bottles and have figured out how to make my own.
Homemade Snapple
Snapple is made up of mixture of tea and juice, mixed with a lot of water. The commercial Snapple uses black tea and different juices. I use all kinds of teas, black tea or herb tea.
Here is a list of ingredients:
- Large bottle: Large glass or plastic bottle with an opening large enough to put tea bags in and take them out again without breaking them. I like to use the large cranberry juice bottles.
- Tea bags: Either black tea, green tea, or herb tea.
- Frozen juice can: A 355 mg (8 ounce) can of frozen fruit juice or punch. In Canada, they cost between $.59 and $1.00. Sweet juices are best, e.g. peach punch, strawberry punch, peach-orange punch.
- Pop bottle: Save some empty pop bottle, the large family size. You may need more than one. Don't let the dog play with it, though.
Directions: First you have to make a big batch of tea the day before you are going to need the Snapple. Don't start with hot water. Iced tea tastes much better if you start it with cold water.
Place 2 or 3 tea bags in the large bottle with the wide rim and top the bottle off with cold water. Keep it in the fridge. That is what we call a refrigerator in Canada. The iced tea should be quite weak in taste, because you are going to add concentrated juice to it.
The next day, pour one thawed-out frozen juice can into a 2 liter pop bottle. Top it off with the weak iced tea from the large bottle.
Master Taster
Some brands of tea are stronger than others and so are different brands of punch. The mixture has to be tasted to make sure that it is not too strong or too weak. Ask your mom to be the master taster. She will know best.
Name the Baby
Now name your baby. I name mine "Trapple." That stands for "Traute's Snapple." You make up another name.
And now you can set up your lemonade stand, except that you are selling Trapple instead of lemonade.
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