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Shirley Temple
I've added a splash of lemon juice to the usual recipe. It's still not that exciting
Michael Click
12th January at 19:13
I rate this as a 3.5 when made with ginger ale and just a 3 when made with lemon-lime soda. It's just my personal preference. I like the optional squeeze of lemon to cut down the sweetness. It's really good with pomegranate syrup instead of the candy sweet supermarket grenadine because the pomegranate adds some much needed tartness.
6th March 2023 at 14:02
This is a drink which can be nice with all fresh and natural ingredients. Make your own grenadine (using freshly processed pomegranate juice which is magenta in colour, please don't get the bottled ones which are dark red in colour), fresh lemon juice and a cheat's homemade ginger ale (which is fresh ginger juice syrup and soda). The fruitiness of pomegranate plays wonderfully with spicy ginger.
26th March 2024 at 17:53
Chris, I used an honest-to-goodness homemade grenadine - a recipe I love and have made for years - and the taste of it in the ginger ale (Fever Tree Refreshingly Light) threw me off. But I agree that it might be best to go all homemade with this. I'll try your ginger ale suggestion.