Well, spank me on an Easter Sunday!! I would have never guessed to use vegetables as a colorant for lemonade! Sure beets are sometimes used in red velvet cake but did you know it made such a pretty shade of pink? Maybe I’m late for the party but I’m glad to finally be here! I mean just look at that shade! It’s almost an electric pink, which is the PERFECT shade for a boozy, Girls-Night-In drink IMO. The results: A gorgeous, pretty pink lemonade! Just the shade I was looking for without the cloudiness! Matter of fact, beets create so many drop-dead gorgeous shades of pink depending on how much you use. Upon this discovery, I quickly ditched my “fruit juices” and whipped up a batch using ( not even a teaspoon!!) of beet juice. Snapple uses no artificial colors so how were they creating such a lovely pink drink? What in nature produces that glorious pink shade? I scanned the short ingredients list and saw it… VEGETABLE BLEND WRONG! Snapple to the rescue!Īs I was drinking my pretty pink Snapple pink lemonade I noticed how gorgeous it was. I just assumed that naturally, pink lemonade would never be the color of the ones in the grocery store that uses dyes. I never thought to try anything else to get a perfect pink color. I also had to use a bit more of it to get the pink color which also imparted some raspberry flavor. Raspberry juice gave a suitable pink color but it also separated a bit and made my lemonade cloudy if I wasn’t careful to strain them well. However, using strawberries left me with pink lemonade that was kinda orange-pink. I use to make my homemade pink lemonade recipe with strawberry juice, raspberry juice, or sometimes cranberry juice because… just seemed like the most natural thing to do. You can find beet juice in Target, Whole Foods, Publix, etc.Less than a teaspoon colors an entire pitcher.Doesn’t separate or become cloudy like fruit juices.I can assure you that this homemade pink lemonade recipe does not include cinnamon candies or red dye from dirty tights! But it DOES have a secret ingredient that makes the PRETTIEST, all-natural pink color ever! Wanna know what it is? BEET JUICE!!!!ĭon’t click off, I promise you’ll LOVE it! Even if you hate beets as I do! Ick! Why beets? Pete sold the drink as “pink lemonade” and his sales doubled. A performer had just wrung out her red tights in the dirty water and the dye from the tights created pink water. Whether or not this was on purpose or an accident it is still up in the air. It claims that when he was selling lemonade at a circus, he ran out of water and grabbed a tub of dirty water. The next story (and my favorite) claims that pink lemonade was invented by Pete Conklin. Apparently, the “pink lemonade” was a hit and pink lemonade was born. They decided to sell the drink anyway to keep from having to throw it out. He claimed that he accidentally dropped some cinnamon candies into a batch of lemonade and it turned pink. So the first story goes that a man named Henry E. However, these two are my favorites, and both tie pink lemonade’s birth to the circuses in America, but who knows. There are actually several stories floating around the net about the origins of pink lemonade. Lemonade is such a popular drink at the circus so it’s no wonder several stories claim that pink lemonade originated at the circus. Origin of Pink Lemonade: Where did pink lemonade come from? Ok since pink lemonade is just regular lemonade with a pink color, what’s the big deal? Where did this concept even come from? That was my next question, so I had to look into it and the stories are numerous! We’ll be doing something a little bit different though in this recipe and I’ll never use fruit to make pink lemonade again, but more on that later. It should taste just like regular lemonade but.well…pink! To make regular lemonade pink, most people use food dye or a little bit of fruit juice from a red-colored fruit. Pink lemonade is just regular lemonade with red coloring. It’s not strawberry lemonade, red raspberry lemonade, or any other red fruit-flavored lemonade. Pink lemonade is not a particular flavor. But what exactly is pink lemonade? What is pink lemonade? It makes the perfect girly drink for a Spring baby shower and bridal shower or for relaxing outside on a hot summer day. Pink lemonade searches begin to kick into high gear on google in April and I’m sure you know why! There is just something pretty and Springy about pink lemonade. “A naturally hot pink lemonade made with a secret ingredient to get the prettiest pink color ever! So bold, sweet, tart, delicious and refreshing! Watch me make this hot pink lemonade from start to finish!
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