Many people find a slice of lemon in a beverage such as a gin and tonic provides an adequate vitamin supplement, if taken twice daily.
I am not so complacent. Cranberry juice, as you can see, is high in Vitamin C and an antioxidant. Just reading the label makes me feel young and healthy: Ocean Spray. I’m going to grab my board and go surfin’ on the Thames in my dreams but I must be realistic. If I may digress, my first view of the Pacific was accompanied by a Bloody Mary with a runner bean as garnish – top tip. Thank you to two friends now in Chamonix looking at Mont Blanc.
The Ocean Spray pitch is there are “700 cranberry growing families, caring for tiny and mighty berries since 1930”. I’m not arguing, except to point out that the cranberries are in the United States, Canada and Chile and cranberry growing on a commercial scale needs farmers. This juice is a healthy elixir and I commend it. Customers of Waitrose don’t like it since artificial sweeteners replaced sugar. Don’t be discouraged; it should not be taken neat. If short of time mix with vodka and plop in a few ice cubes. If you have more leisure, perhaps before supper, make a Cosmopolitan.
Hang on, another digression.
A Cosmopolitan?
- 125ml Ocean Spray® Cranberry Classic® Juice Drink
- 50ml vodka
- 25ml Cointreau
- A dash of fresh lime juice
To add to your alco’s medicine cabinet, this is from a wildlife blog, Purple Crow, describing a trip to a mosquito infested swap in Poland:“From that point on, whenever we were being bothered by the insects we would snap off a sprig and set light to it – Juniper is full of volatile oils and burns easily. As soon as the first smoke appeared the mosquitoes vanished. Burning Juniper is an effective mosquito repellent so perhaps the combination of gin and tonic in the administration of anti malarial medicine wasn’t so strange at all.”