The most festive drink is the history of lemonade. Origin of Lemonade

The word lemonade immediately brings to mind summer and carefree childhood. This delicious and refreshing drink is one of the oldest in the world. The history of lemonade as a soft drink dates back to 500-600 BC. e. In those days, regular and lemon sorbets, kefir and milk were used as drinks. In order to cool drinks for Alexander the Great, ice was brought from distant countries. At that time, drinks were not yet carbonated.

Lemonade is of noble French origin (from limonade, meaning " soft drink") and owes its appearance to the mistake of the court cupbearer of King Louis I, who, while presenting the monarch with a glass of wine, confused the barrels with wine and juice. On the way to the royal table, having discovered his mistake, the cupbearer added mineral water to the juice and, mentally saying goodbye to life, served new drink to the king. A bold experiment thus presented the royal table with a drink that looked very much like a lung. a sparkling wine. Filling the glass with this wonderful thin drink was accompanied by a mesmerizing sound, reminiscent of the sound of a sea surf or a magnificent waterfall... In all likelihood, it was these facts that inspired the unlucky cupbearer and the king’s surprised question: “What is this?”, he answered without hesitation: "Shorle, Your Majesty." His Majesty clearly liked the drink, and from then on Schorle began to be called “royal lemonade.”

In the 17th century in France, lemonade was still made from water and lemon juice or lemon tincture, but adding sugar. And representatives of the aristocracy preferred lemon drink based on mineral waters that were brought from medicinal springs. Almost simultaneously with France, lemonade became popular in Italy: in this country there were more lemon trees, and they liked to diversify lemonade with other components - infusions from herbs and other fruits.

The recipe for lemonade came to our country with light hand Peter I. The famous diplomat of the Peter I era, P. A. Tolstoy, wrote that abroad “they drink more lemonade...”. Unlike other foreign delights - smoking, shaving beards, coffee - lemonade immediately appealed to the Russian people.

Naturally, in those distant times, the lemon drink was non-carbonated: the appearance of the familiar bubbles in it became possible after the English scientist Joseph Priestley designed a saturator in 1767 - a device that saturates water carbon dioxide. The first carbonated lemonades appeared at the beginning of the 19th century - after they learned to extract citric acid from lemons, and the 20th century marked the beginning industrial production this drink. Although the basis of the classic lemonade recipe was lemon fruits, water and sugar, other fruits were often used for its preparation to diversify and enrich its taste. For example, one of these ingredients was watermelon: its refreshing pulp was added to lemon juice, sugar and water. Mint, ginger and other spices - there were so many variations in the composition that the word “lemonade” eventually became a common noun and was used to refer to all sweet soft drinks.

The first company to commercialize carbonated drinks was Schwepp & Co, which later began producing waters with fruit and berry syrups. Because the natural syrups were expensive, they began to be replaced with acids and essences. The first to be allocated lemon acid and lemonade became the world's leading fruit soda in 1833, and Lemon's Superior Sparkling Ginger Ale ginger ale") - the first registered trademark of a soft drink.

At the beginning of the 20th century, carbonation and bottling technologies were applied to lemonade, which marked the beginning of its large-scale production. IN Soviet time in our country lemonade has acquired the status national drink. At the same time, recipes for ready-made carbonated lemonades were developed, prepared on natural fruit bases, herbal extracts and sugar. Besides good taste, classic domestic drinks had excellent tonic and restorative properties.

I suggest using this story as a guide to action and experimenting at home.

BIRCH LEMONADE
BAR STRELKA
Price: 250 rubles for 350 ml
Compound: Birch juice, lemongrass and thyme

Sergey Chesnokov, bar manager at Strelka: “The most important consumers of lemonade are girls. When they read the ingredients: “cucumber, honey and chamomile,” they immediately react: “That’s all I put on my face!” And, of course, they want to try this drink. So natural lemonades are our best-selling products. In the summer heat, you don’t feel like eating, but you just want to drink something natural and fresh. For chemicals like Coca-Cola, your hand may sometimes reach into the refrigerator, but this is solely from childhood memory. So “Birch” lemonade is the most suitable drink for summer. It is made from natural birch sap. The trick is how the drink is prepared: birch sap is poured into a siphon. Spices are added there: lemongrass and thyme. We don’t add anything else there, we are for naturalness.”

SEA BUCKTHORN LEMONADE
CAFE AND BAKERY "BULKA"
Price: 290 rubles for 320 ml
Ingredients: sea buckthorn, grapefruit, orange, lime, ginger syrup and ice

Philip Leites, head barista at Bulki: “Sea buckthorn lemonade, in addition to its refreshing effect, is great for cheering up during the sweltering heat: it contains an unprecedented amount of vitamin C (sea buckthorn and citrus fruits), as well as enough a large number of ginger syrup, which tones up just like coffee!

KVASS LEMONADE WITH HERBS
CAFE RAGOUT
Price: 250 rubles for 350 ml and 600 rubles per liter
Ingredients: kvass, tarragon, basil, ice, mint, lychee, lemon and soda water

Natalya Davydova, head bartender at Ragout: “My task, as the person developing the bar map, is to bring exceptional offers to the Ragout menu, based on seasonality. The goal is to be able to realize the unexpected from the usual. This means that we will not offer you strawberry lemonade under New Year or tangerine juices in summer heat. Everything has its time. Kvass should quench your thirst in the summer. And hot ginger tea-warm in winter. But why offer just kvass when you can taste it everywhere? Here the idea was born to create lemonade based on everyone’s favorite summer drink. Make it drinkable, refreshing and something completely new. It was a success and we are happy about it.”

MANDARN AND tarragon LEMONADE
CAFE DOME
Price: 400 rubles per liter
Ingredients: tangerines, tarragon, fresh lemon juice, passion fruit syrup, sugar syrup, sparkling water

Alexander Shikin, bar manager at Dome: “We have three types of lemonade: with sea buckthorn, with watermelon and tarragon and with tangerines and tarragon. We love using tarragon in drinks because of its wonderful ability to tactfully complement the flavor and not take on the main role, unlike, for example, rosemary. What’s interesting about this lemonade is that tangerine and tarragon are such a combination of winter and summer: tarragon gives freshness, and tangerine reminds of the New Year holidays.”

BANANA MINT LEMONADE
BURGER BAR CORNER BURGER
Price: 250 rubles for 360 ml
Compound: fresh banana, mint, sugar syrup, lemon juice, mineral water

Asker Khashev, bar manager at Iconfood: “If you were asked what flavors you associate with the jungle, banana would probably be in the top five. It’s not for nothing that the city is called a concrete jungle. Bright taste Banana is popular here too. Our Banana Mint Lemonade is a combination of sweet and fresh that our guests love. Now I’m introducing a few more interesting mixes to the menu.”

LEMONGRASS LEMONADE
CAFE DELICATESSEN
Price: 120 rubles per 300 ml, 300 rubles per liter
Ingredients: lemongrass syrup, powdered sugar, lemon juice, mineral water, ice

Denis Tkachenko, bartender at Delicatessen: “We make several lemonades and all of them are not ordinary. The refreshing one made from lemongrass goes very well. First of all, syrup is made for this lemonade. Take a bunch of lemongrass, add lime leaves and all this with the addition of sugar syrup grinds. Then the syrup is filtered through a fine sieve and sent to the refrigerator, awaiting its turn. Then, when we prepare lemonade, we add this syrup to correct proportion mix in a shaker with lemon juice and powdered sugar. Then add soda to the glass or mineral water and decorate with lemon.”

HAWAII
CAFE FRIENDS FOREVER
Price: 350 rubles for 500 ml
Ingredients: pineapple, strawberry, raspberry, banana syrup, pineapple juice and ice

Nina Gudkova, co-founder and chef of Friends Forever: “Hawaii is the most popular lemonade at Friends Forever - no surprise there, to be honest. How can one not like the taste of fresh strawberries and raspberries, and in combination with freshly squeezed pineapple juice which burns calories and is good for your figure? I also think that the name captivates everyone - who doesn’t dream of Hawaii? Everything is easy with lemonades - the main thing is to use them fresh juices, fruits and berries - so the taste will be right. And then you just need to add ice and ice water. In addition to lemonades, we make iced teas, the main task here is to improve the condition of the body in extreme heat.”

LEMONADE WITH tarragon
SHOP & BAR DENIS SIMACHEV
Price: 400 rubles per liter and 200 rubles per 500 ml
Ingredients: Tarragon extract syrup, sugar syrup and soda

Alexey Kiselev, bartender at Simacheva: “Currently our most popular lemonades are berry and this one with tarragon. Apparently, everyone is tired of the classic ones; the majority are ordering something new. How we make this lemonade: add a little sugar syrup to the tarragon extract, pour it all with soda and mix thoroughly - and it’s ready. The top of the glass of lemonade is decorated with thinly sliced green apple, it’s somehow inspired by color.”

VILET LEMONADE
WINE BAR "GAVROCHE"
Price: 390 rubles per 1 liter
Ingredients: sugar, violet syrup, sage and lemon juice

Dmitry Rogov, bar manager of the Gavroche wine bar: “We introduced lemonades to the menu as soon as we opened. They are very popular in the summer; they are also readily accepted at other times of the year. The first we made was the usual mint-lemon one, then the strawberry one appeared. The next one had to be French, in order to relate to our cuisine. That's why we settled on violet flavor. At first they wanted to add fresh violet flowers to lemonade, but in Moscow they all year round can't be found, there are only dried herbs. So we started using violet syrup, and for naturalness we decided to add fresh sage to the base of it and lemon juice. This lemonade quenches thirst very well, it has little sweetness and leaves a pleasant aftertaste.”

MOSCOW SPRING PUNCH
CAFE "BROWN FOX AND LAZY DOG"
Price: 300 rubles for 250 ml
Ingredients: raspberries, ginger, ginger ale, honey, lime

Alexey Trunov, bar manager of the cafe “Brown Fox and the Lazy Dog”: “Moscow Spring punch is a 100% Russian cocktail, invented by the famous Moscow bartender Bek Narzi, who explains its composition as follows: “ginger is Muscovites’ passion for Asian cuisine, raspberries - sweet taste spring, and honey is the Russian equivalent of sugar.” The non-alcoholic version of Moscow Spring Punch, like the alcoholic one, is very popular at Brown Fox and Lazy Dog“. Despite the name, this is an off-season, versatile drink, especially good in summer due to its thirst-quenching properties. This is one of the cocktails with the most balanced taste - not too sour, sweet or tart, and contains raspberries, ginger, ginger ale, honey and lime. So it’s a lot like lemonade.”

LEMONADE WITH LYCHEE
BISTRO BLACK MARKET
Price: 400 rubles per liter or 160 rubles per 350 ml
Ingredients: lemon, lime, lychee, sparkling water, lime juice, lychee syrup

Asker Khashev, bar manager at Icon Food: “Heat, thirst. Drinking another soda - no. I'm tired of juice. Mojito? To do this, you need, at a minimum, to write “The Old Man and the Sea.” Thoughts float slowly, stretching out, as if chewing gum, stuck to a sneaker on a hot day. How can we be saved? Lemonade! And not just lemonade, but exotic - well, who would be surprised by a tired orange or pineapple? I want something exotic, so we made lychee lemonade at Black Market.”

PINE CONE LEMONADE
CAFE CLUMBA CLUB
Price: 680 rubles per liter or 240 rubles per 330 ml
Ingredients: carbonated mineral water, young jam pine cones, lemon juice, frappe ice

Evgeniy Vasilkov, bar manager at Clumba Club: « Last winter We have a new item in our farm products department at Clumba Market - taiga jam made from pine cones. I decided to experiment with the product. We made a winter offer: black tea made with jam. The guests quickly tried it and liked it. In June it was time to make lemonade, I remembered the cones. The recipe is simple: sparkling water, jam from young cones, a little lemon juice. Jam here acts as an analogue of syrup, but it is a natural product, without chemical “additives”. By mixing thick, very sweet jam with highly carbonated water and adding a little lemon juice, we get a refreshing drink, the taste of which transports you to the summer coolness of a coniferous forest somewhere in the Baltic, in the area of ​​the Curonian Spit.”

Who among us doesn't like carbonated drinks? Most will respond by shaking their heads affirmatively, confirming the degree of sympathy. How did this effervescent water with bubbles, different in taste and color, appear?

The history of lemonade and soda

The origin of soda is lemonade. This drink, consisting of lemon juice and mineral water, was popular among the European aristocratic elite since the 17th century due to its high cost. Lemons grew in the south, so lemonade was most common in Italy, which became a supplier to the French royal court. In Italy they added it to lemonade herbal tinctures, introducing flavor diversity.

The history of soda itself begins in 1767. Then in England a device was invented that filled the liquid with bubbles - carbon dioxide. Carbonated water became widespread at the beginning of the 19th century. By the end of that century, merchants in the United States had patented a drink with a long name that claimed sophistication, calling it “High Quality Lemon Sparkling Ginger Ale.”

Traveling around Europe and eagerly adopting local traditions, Peter I introduced drinking lemonade into fashion. The Emperor ordered lemonade to be drunk at important meetings and assemblies. The fashion trend was adopted by the nobility and merchants. Lemonade, that is, a mixture of squeezed lemon juice and water, was loved by the Russian nobility, although the drink did not last long and cost a lot of money.

The stratum that occupied a social niche below the aristocracy could not afford to add mineral water to the drink due to cost. However, lemonade was prepared and served as a simple lemon water. Mentions of drinking lemonade can be found in most works of Russian writers of the 19th century: for example, in “The Queen of Spades” Herman drinks it, in “Masquerade” - Arbenin, in “The Station Agent” - Dunya’s father, etc.

Soda in Russia

After the discovery of a device for introducing carbon dioxide into water, the creation of soda began to develop in Georgian soil. A pharmacist from Tiflis, Mitrofan Lagidze, in 1887 replaced the lemon ingredient in soda with tarragon extract, producing the aromatic Tarragon. In the pre-revolutionary era, the drink repeatedly won at international exhibitions, which allowed Lagidze’s workshop to turn into a factory and become a supplier of sparkling water to the royal court of Russia and the Shah’s palace of Iran.

In Soviet times, special trains with Georgian carbonated lemonade, which already had a wide range of flavors, were sent from factories in Tiflis and Tbilisi.

In 1952, a gift at the presidential level came from America to the USSR. A thousand bottles of Coca-Cola were given to our country as an example of the achievement of American capitalism. In reply Soviet Union“treated” Americans to a batch of domestic lemonades different types, including exotic ones.

Soda machines siphons

The older generation, who lived through the era of socialist construction, are very familiar with soda fountains. The first such machine gun appeared in 1937 in Moscow, in the canteen of Smolny. Then the machines spread throughout the capital, and then throughout the country. Gazvoda has become accessible to everyone, young and old. On city streets there were machines with reusable cups, which were rinsed immediately under running water. To get drunk with plain sparkling water, you had to put one kopeck in the cell; a glass of syrup costs three kopecks.

Speaking about gas water, we cannot fail to mention siphons - containers into which effervescent water could be poured and used at home.

Carbonated lemonade has gone through this historical path, and today it is subject to much criticism for great content sugar, dyes and other not very healthy components.

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The basis of lemonade is a blend, that is, a mixture of all ingredients. The blend is prepared most often in a cold way, but there are semi-hot and hot ways. The quality of the components and their dosage determine the quality finished product. The largest percentage of the drink's contents is water - about 80%. Large factories have a well on their territory, but even such water must be filtered, softened and disinfected.

The refreshing effect of soft drinks is due to the presence in their composition of dissolved carbon dioxide CO 2 and organic acids (citric, etc.). Depending on the degree of saturation with carbon dioxide, the drink can be still, lightly, medium and highly carbonated. Carbonated drinks are produced by artificially saturating drinks with carbon dioxide in special installations - saturators. A drink that is too rich will acquire a sharp, stinging aftertaste.

To carbonate drinks, most beer and soft drink plants buy liquid carbon dioxide, although during beer production (fermentation) quite a lot of CO 2 is released, which can be collected and, after purification, used to carbonate drinks - rational use of “waste”.

On the labels of lemonades, the composition usually indicates the color - this is what they call burnt sugar. It is obtained by heating moistened sugar and is used as a natural dye. Its solution in water has a dark brown color and a characteristic pleasant odor.

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For cooking original drink"Lemonade" uses water, sugar and lemon juice or citric acid. This drink has yellow, refreshing taste and aroma of lemon.

For the preparation of other lemonade drinks, water, sugar, citric acid, as well as fruit and berry syrups and tinctures and (or) other nutrients(For example,

Lemonade is one of the most delicious soft drinks. Lemonade recipe does not contain alcohol, but it contains a lot of juice from various citrus fruits, and above all, lemon. It was this fruit that gave the name to this wonderful drink, which is loved not only by children, but also by adults.

The name "lemonade" first appeared in the 17th century. The recipe for the very first lemonade consisted of only two ingredients: lemon tincture and lemon juice, so only those soft drinks can be called real lemonade if the recipe contains no other ingredients besides lemon juice, water and sugar.

It is a mistake to call the sweet carbonated drinks that are on supermarket shelves lemonade. Natural juice they don’t contain lemon, but they contain exclusively natural products: lemons and other citrus fruits, often mint leaves, water and sugar. Of all the listed ingredients needed to prepare lemonade according to the classic recipe, doubts about its naturalness arise exclusively with regard to sugar.

More often homemade lemonade It is prepared non-carbonated, but there are many lemonade recipes in which ordinary mineral water is easily replaced with carbonated water.

If before the classic lemonade recipe fruits contained only citrus fruits, now lemonade can be made from almost any fruit. Pears, apples, plums, pomegranate, pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, currants... The imagination of cooks is limitless and that is why the name “lemonade” can now be found absolutely various recipes refreshing drinks. At the same time, they do not become worse from this, far from it.

In order to prepare lemonade at home for 2 servings according to the classic recipe, you will need a couple of tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice, 2 glasses of sparkling mineral water, a few teaspoons of sugar, and a couple of lemon slices to decorate the drink.

Before you start preparing lemonade according to this recipe, you need to decorate the glasses in which you are going to serve the drink. It's very easy to do. Pour a spoonful of lemon juice into a small saucer and lower the glass into it, edge down, and then lower the glass into the saucer with sugar in the same way.

Pour a spoonful of lemon juice into each glass and add 1-2 tablespoons of sugar to each of them to taste. Mix the mixture thoroughly in the glasses, and then add a glass of mineral water to each of them. You can decorate the glass with a slice of lemon and a beautiful straw. Lemonade prepared this way simple recipe, there is no shame in serving it at any special event. Aesthetic appearance of this drink will please even the most sophisticated guest.

If you or your guests do not like carbonated mineral water, you can replace it with regular table water, and the lemonade prepared according to this recipe will not lose any of its taste. By the way, the option for decorating glasses presented in this lemonade recipe, can be used for other drinks. It’s not uncommon for cocktail bars to decorate in this way. alcoholic drinks. Before serving lemonade, do not forget to add one or two pieces of ice to each glass (if the weather outside allows this).

Those who like experimenting, even in the preparation of soft drinks, should try making lemonade at home one at a time unusual recipe. In addition to the juice of two lemons, the ingredients also include a quarter glass of strawberry juice, two egg whites and one glass of mineral water (optional, sparkling or not).

Combine and mix thoroughly in a mixer all the ingredients for the future lemonade according to the recipe, except for mineral water. After the mixture rises in the mixer, add mineral water to it and pour into glasses. If you wish, you can add sugar to the drink. It’s better to do this individually, because quite a lot of people like their drink to be sour.

Thanks to strawberry juice, lemonade prepared according to this recipe is not only incredibly tasty, but also has a very beautiful color. A small strawberry on the edge of the glass will only highlight it and add positive ratings to your drink from family and close friends.

In different lemonade recipes includes various fruit juices. The success of the entire drink depends on their compatibility with lemon juice, so if you are preparing homemade lemonade for the first time, then try to find the proportion of ingredients that you will fully like. At the same time, while preparing lemonade, carefully monitor the taste of the lemon juice. If it is too strong, then add exactly 2 times less of it than is written in the lemonade recipe.

On a hot summer day homemade lemonade will perfectly help you get rid of thirst. Lemonade is loved not only for its original taste, but also for the freshness that you experience after a few sips of this wonderful drink. Add freshness to classic recipe lemonade can be made from fresh mint leaves.

Place 5-7 fresh mint leaves on the bottom of the jug. Then pour the squeezed juice of one lemon and the juice of one sweet orange into it. Put it in a jug required amount sugar, and then fill the pitcher with soda mineral water, then let the drink brew for 5-10 minutes and then you will get a very tasty mint lemonade.

This lemonade recipe Perfect for a hot July day in the country or in the garden. At the same time, if you prepare mint leaves for the fall, then you can safely use them to decorate the drink at other times of the year, because dried mint retains its unique aroma.

Fresh mint can be found not only in recipes mint lemonade, but also in others, even more exotic lemonade recipes, for example, such as tea lemonade. For it you will need 2 glasses of chilled white tea, preferably freshly brewed tea, one glass of mineral water, 3 tablespoons of lemon juice, mint leaves and sugar to taste.

Mix all the ingredients of this lemonade recipe together and pour into glasses, on the bottom of which place mint in advance. Green cocktail umbrellas can complement the colorful look of glasses of lemonade. If you don't love White tea, then replace it with green or red tea, but it’s better not to add black tea to lemonade, otherwise the drink will be too bitter.

Thanks to the products included in lemonade recipe, such a cool drink can be stored in the refrigerator for quite a long time, so if you have a holiday at home or a picnic, then you can safely prepare lemonade in the morning and be sure that it will perfectly preserve all its taste qualities until the evening.

On big company can be cooked lemonade recipe, which lists all the most popular citrus fruits.

Take 6 lemons, oranges, limes and a quarter of grapefruit, squeeze the juice out of them and add a little less than 4 liters of mineral water. Then add a couple of glasses of sugar and stir it into the lemonade a little. After the sugar has completely dissolved, the drink can be served. This can be done either in an individual bowl or in a large jug, but be prepared for guests to ask for more.

As you can see, lemonade recipes so many. You can come up with your own recipe, based on those you have already studied and tested. The process of preparing lemonade does not take much time, which is why many housewives prefer to serve it on the table, since at any time you can please your guests with something tasty and unusual.