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Peach, cranberry and orange - the spring-break classic with the schnapps left out.
Ingredients
Measures below are multiplied for 6 drinks. Unmeasurable amounts such as “a splash” are left as written.
- 180 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 180 ml line. Peach purée - Standing in for the peach schnapps - sieved, so the drink stays smooth
- 360 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 360 ml line. Cranberry juice
- 360 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 360 ml line. Orange juice
- 60 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) of a standard jigger, plus two teaspoons. Lime juice
- 6 wheels Dehydrated orange wheel (optional)
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Quick version
- Shake the peach, cranberry and orange with ice and strain over fresh ice.
Method
Pitcher (6 drinks)Pitcher (6 drinks) - about 960 ml of measured ingredients, before ice and dilution.
Timings and per-glass steps below are written for one drink and are not scaled. A full jug takes longer to chill, so stir or shake until it is properly cold rather than by the clock, and pour over fresh ice one glass at a time.
- Shake the peach purée, cranberry juice, orange juice and lime with ice for 10 seconds.
- Strain over fresh ice in a highball glass.
- Add a wheel of orange and serve it cold.
Serve it
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Safe Sex on the Beach
The name is a joke from the 1980s that has outlived almost everything else about the drink it belongs to, and the alcohol-free version has been on bar lists under it ever since - a spring-break order for the one person in the group who is driving. Peach, cranberry and orange is a good combination whatever it is called, and the peach does not miss its schnapps half as much as you would expect.
Getting it right
Peach schnapps brings sugar and alcohol, not much peach, so purée is the better substitute - but sieve it, or the drink will be full of pulp. Cranberry does the work of keeping it sharp, so use unsweetened juice if you can find it, and give it a squeeze of lime. Shake it rather than building it in the glass: the purée needs the agitation to come together.
Tasting notes
Ripe peach over dark cranberry, with the orange bridging the two and a clean lime finish. Sweet and full-bodied, in the way that only a drink with fruit in it can be.