Eight Nights Citrus

Name: Eight Nights Citrus
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: 2 oz (60 ml) fresh orange juice; ½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice; ½ oz (15 ml) honey syrup; 1 rosemary sprigs; 3 oz (90 ml) sparkling white tea, chilled

A bright sparkler for the eight nights of Hanukkah, or any dark December night: orange, lemon and honey under sparkling white tea.

Alcohol-free. Nothing in it has alcohol.

Make it

You’ll need

2 oz (60 ml) fresh orange juice
½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) honey syrup
1 rosemary sprigs
3 oz (90 ml) sparkling white tea, chilled

Garnish: A wide strip of orange peel, twisted over the drink, and a short rosemary sprig.

Method

Add ice to a tall glass.
Shake the orange juice, lemon juice, honey syrup and the leaves of the rosemary sprig hard with ice.
Strain into the glass and top with the sparkling white tea.

Swap. No sparkling tea? Use soda water, and add a splash of strong white tea, cooled, to the shaker.

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Order something like it

Drinks in the same style, or with the same flavours, on menus we’ve checked:

Strawberry Fields at Baleia, South End ($12)
Bright & Early at Capo Restaurant & Supper Club, South Boston ($9)
Spritz (N/A) at Capri Italian Steakhouse, South End
Ginger Lemon Tea at Changsho, Neighborhood Nine ($7)

Allergens and caffeine

Contains a little caffeine, from the sparkling white tea.
No major allergens.
Made with honey, which isn't safe for babies under one.

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The tools

The pantry

Sparkling white teaAmazon

Make ahead

Honey syrup. Stir 1 part honey into 1 part hot water until it's smooth. Refrigerated, it lasts about four weeks.

From the store

Fresh orange juice, Fresh lemon juice, Rosemary sprigs.

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How we checked it

Dry Rabbit originals are developed and checked with AI, against the 42 tested recipes in The Dry Rabbit Cocktail Guide: sweetness and acidity per ounce, sweet to sour, dilution and the drink’s size against drinks made the same way, every ingredient’s alcohol, and whether you can buy it. One that falls outside the book’s range is reworked before it’s published.

The check’s notes on Eight Nights Citrus

Shaken and topped, like the book's Cottontail Collins. Sweetness 0.15 a finished ounce and acidity 0.13 sit inside the book's shaken drinks (0.06 to 0.16, 0.10 to 0.24); sweet to sour, 1.18, is above their top (1.08) but inside the check's 15 percent margin, because orange is sweeter than the lemon-led sours. 6.8 oz over ice in a highball. Honey syrup, not sugar, gives it a rounder, December sweetness; rosemary shaken with it gives the winter note. Sparkling white tea is the one specialty item (natural-food stores or online), and the page offers soda water and cooled tea as the swap. It shares two ingredients with any one book recipe at most. Contains a little caffeine, and the page says so. 0.0%.

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