SIMPLE-BUT-BRILLIANT ICE CUBES
Source of Recipe
Martha Stewart's "LIVING" Magazine Idea Card
Recipe Introduction
It's annoying to drop a few regular ice cubes (made/frozen from water) into a drink only for the ice cubes to gradually water down the beverage we're drinking making it weak and no longer delicious. Here's the cure for that problem...
List of Ingredients
Your favorite beverage, in its full strength/undiluted liquid form, which could be any/all of the following beverages (and even many that I don't mention here)...
ICED TEA, or ICED COFFEE (your own, or your favorite full-strength mix);
LEMONADE (ditto);
HAWAIIAN PUNCH, or KOOL-AID, or SNAPPLE ORANGEADE (or any fruit Drink/Punch/Ade);
PEPSI COLA (or any soda);
Recipe
1) Pour your favorite beverage into a regular ice cube tray(s);
2) Set the filled tray(s) in your freezer to freeze;
3) Let it freeze until the "Beverage Cubes" are rock-solid hard (remember in your planning that carbonated [fizzy] beverages take much longer to freeze than non-carbonated [not fizzy] beverages, especially for them to freeze to the point of where they're rock-solid hard).
4) Eject the frozen solid "Beverage Cubes" from their tray(s) into your preferred choice of "bucket" for ordinary ice cubes, and...
5) Then drop a few Iced Tea "Beverage Cubes" into a glass and then pour the exact same Iced Tea into your glass over the "Beverage Cubes" and as the "Beverage Cubes" gradually melt, they will melt into more of the exact same beverage, same strength, NOT watering down your Iced Tea AT ALL. And the same goes for "Beverage Cubes" made from Lemonade, Hawaiian Punch, Iced Coffee, Pepsi-Cola, Barq's Creme Soda, Mello Yello Cherry, Snapple Orangeade, Etc.
NOTE: If you make these "Beverage Cubes" for a party you're giving where you're offering different kinds of beverages to your guests (i.e., Iced Tea AND Pepsi-Cola, etc.), remember to LABEL the "ice buckets" so people will know which bucket has which flavor "Beverage Cubes" in it, and put the bucket next to the same flavor drink it's going to be keeping cool.
YIELD: Usually 12 to 14 cubes for each Ice Tray Filled & Frozen
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