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Highball · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Summer Delight

Mahoney's Summer Delight is a lime-and-raspberry sweet soda built over ice and dressed with fruit.

sweet · lime · berry · sparkling · refreshing · summer

Served in Large bar glass. Ice: Lump ice.

Variants (2)

The Hoffman House Bartender's Guide by Charles S. Mahoney (1905, p.215)

1 limelime juice — Juice of one lime.acid
3 piecesice — Two or three lumps.base
1 bottlesweet soda dilution
fruit — fruitsgarnish
0.5 ponyRaspberry syrup sweetener
  1. Build the ice, lime juice, raspberry syrup, and sweet soda in a large bar glass.
  2. Stir well, trim with fruits, and serve with a straw.

Garnish: Seasonal fruit

Ice: Lump ice

The Artistry of Mixing Drinks by Frank Meier (1936, p.79)

1 limelime juice — Lime juiceacid
3 piecesice — Icebase
Soda water — Soda waterdilution
fruit — Fruit of seasongarnish
0.5 glassRaspberry syrup — Raspberry syrupsweetener
  1. Build over ice in a large tumbler, fill with soda water, stir, add fruit of the season, and serve with spoon.

Ice: Ice

See also: Lemonade, Soda Lemonade