Frog Lemonade

By Hklbrries

Frog Lemonade was named in honor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune's “Weather Prophet,” the Picayune frog, who was pictured on the newspaper's daily weather report from 1894 to 1982.

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups fresh lemon juice (approximately 6 to 8 lemons)
• 1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
• 2 quarts water
• 2 quarts seltzer water
• 36 strawberries, sliced
• 1 pineapple, thinly sliced
• 1 lemon, thinly sliced
• Sugar to taste
• 1 large ice chunk
• Crushed ice, for serving

Details

Adapted from costcoconnection.com

Preparation

Step 1

Crushed ice, for serving

Place sugar, lemon juice, pineapple juice, water and seltzer water in a large punch bowl and stir. Add strawberry, pineapple and lemon slices. Sweeten to taste and add ice chunk to bowl. When ready to serve, fill glasses ¼ full with crushed ice and then fill with lemonade. Makes about 20 servings

Note: For a grown-up version of this punch, replace the water and pineapple juice with a 750 milliliter bottle of champagne, a 750 milliliter bottle of slightly dry white wine and ½ cup of curaçao.