Enjoy These Fourth of July Drinks

Orange Julius

Ingredients:

• One 6 oz. can frozen orange juice
• 1 c. water
• 1 c. milk
• 1/4 c. sugar
• 10 ice cubes
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

Add all ingredients to a blender. Blend for about one minute, and pour into glasses -- chill glasses ahead of time if possible. Makes 2-3 servings.

Root Beer Floats

Ingredients:

• Two scoops of vanilla ice cream per serving
• One can of root beer per serving

Directions:

Scoop ice cream into large cups or glasses. Fill remainder of cup with root beer. Top off with fresh root beer as you like.

Variation: Not a root beer fan? Replace the ice cream with sherbet and the root beer with lemon-lime soda for a Sherbet Float.

Lemonade Spritzer

Ingredients:

• One 6 oz. can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
• One 6 oz. can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
• 1/2 c. cold water
• 1 liter lemon-lime soda

Directions:

Mix first three ingredients. Add lemon-lime soda just before serving.

Banana Slush Punch

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 c. water
• 1/3 c. sugar
• 1 ripe banana, peeled
• 10 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
• 3 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
• 3 oz. frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
• 1/2 quart ginger ale or lemon-lime soda

Directions:

Bring water and sugar to a boil in a saucepan. Remove from heat and cool. Mash bananas and add some of the pinapple juice; strain. Add sugar-water mixture and juices. Freeze, stirring once.

Thaw frozen mixture for two hours or until softened. Scoop frozen mixture into cups and add ginger ale or lemon-lime soda immediately before serving. Makes 10 servings.

Raspberry Orange Fizz

Ingredients:

• 1 c. raspberries, fresh or frozen
• 4 c. orange juice
• lemon-lime soda
• ice

Directions:

Put 1/4 c. crushed raspberries in the bottom of each of four glasses. Add 1 c. up orange juice to each glass. Add a small handful of ice to each glass and top off with lemon-lime soda.