{"id":321,"date":"2007-08-31T19:53:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=321"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:30:10","slug":"summer-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Summer Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an old favorite, and I may even have invented it, though I don&#8217;t recall very clearly. It&#8217;s been 30 or 40 years since the first time I made one, and 10 or 15 since the last time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Dr. Weevil&#8217;s Elixir<\/strong> (or &#8216;Cranberry Float&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>In a tall and not-too-narrow glass place roughly equal quantities of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>vanilla ice cream<\/li>\n<li>club soda<\/li>\n<li>cranberry juice (<em>not<\/em> sweetened &#8216;cranberry cocktail&#8217;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stir with a long spoon and enjoy. It has a pleasant pink color and is just the right balance of sweet and sour. No doubt because of the juice, it is even more thirst-quenching than a root beer float, and just as cooling. I tried making it with some black currant juice I happened to have around. The result was worth drinking but not worth repeating, disappointing in taste and color (too prunish).<\/p>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d thought of making these three weeks ago &#8212; the daily highs here have been anywhere from 95<sup>o<\/sup> to 102<sup>o<\/sup> just about every day for the last three weeks, and limeade hasn&#8217;t really helped. Now I need to go out and buy some long spoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an old favorite, and I may even have invented it, though I don&#8217;t recall very clearly. It&#8217;s been 30 or 40 years since the first time I made one, and 10 or 15 since the last time: Dr. Weevil&#8217;s Elixir (or &#8216;Cranberry Float&#8217;) In a tall and not-too-narrow glass place roughly equal quantities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}