Lime Rickey recipe? [moved from Boston board]

[ffenes]

I grew up in Boston and love lime rickeys. I now live in California and no one has ever heard of it. Do any of you have a good recipe for one?When I go home I alsways order them, also the chinese food.Thanks.

[newbiefoodie]

I agree with BostonCookieMonster, you need grenadine or simple syrup to make it sweet. For doctored version, I like making gin rickeys-- the perfect summer drink!

[anunez]

ooooh - lime rickeys from Brighams, the best. Agree with Trish on recipe but for more fun a little vodka is always good too!

[Jimbosox04]

I love lime rickeys !! But today I will add a little tequila ;-)

Happy Cinco de Mayo !!

[TrishUntrapped]

For a straight lime rickey:

Ice, seltzer, juice of a lime, then add the lime halves.

For a raspberry lime rickey, add a small amount of raspberry syrup. I use Torani.

[BostonCookieMonster]

No, you need some superfine sugar or simple syrup in there, and maybe a bit more lime. Though the idea of raspberry syrup but no sugar could possibly make me reconsider my disdain for the raspberry version.

[TrishUntrapped]

In my neck of Massachusetts, we never used simple syrup or superfine sugar.
The raspberry syrup has sugar in it. Growing up, we used Zarex (as advertised on Romper Room). In Connecticut, I never see Zarex, hence the Torani.

[BostonCookieMonster]

But what if you don't want a raspberry lime rickey? Then it comes totally unsweetened? No wonder the icky raspberry has taken over. :(

[TrishUntrapped]

I guess taste is in the eye of the beholder, or the mouth as the case may be.

I don't think raspberry is "icky." I think a properly made raspberry lime rickey tastes very very good. It should have pronounced lime and just a tad raspberry flavor.

The raspberry lime rickey has been around a long, long, time. It isn't some morphed variation. It is a legitimate drink in its own right.

If I were to guess (and that's all it would be is a guess), in my part of Massachusetts, the raspberry syrup was the sweetner. Not simple syrup - that's where the raspberry came in, it was the sweetening agent. And that's why we saw raspberry lime rickeys on most menues...

You can add simple syrup or superfine sugar to a lime rickey. There is nothing wrong with that if that is your taste preference. We didn't. Ordering a lime rickey was like ordering iced tea before it got mucked up with sweeteners. You added your own sugar to taste. I am used to just seltzer, ice, juice of a lime plus the lime halves.

Cheers!

[Muskrat]

You don't say where in California you live, but I'm pretty sure they still serve lime rickeys at Dolores in Santa Monica.

[ffenes]

I live in Hemet.