Lime Rickey

Not really a recipe but a very refreshing beverage. We had this last summer at the Litchfield Jazz Festival in Connecticut. A vendor was selling these things for an outrageous amount of money on a perfect hot sunny jazz filled afternoon. Changed our lives it did. Came home and have been making them ever since. Might be an East Coast thing, I've not seen them around here...

1/2 lime
1 -2 tablespoons simple syrup (we now keep a bottle of this in the fridge all the time for when we've gotta have a lime rickey)
Ice
sparkling water.

Juice the lime. Add the syrup (you've gotta figure out how much you want. Sandy likes it less sweet than I do.) Add the ice. Add the sparkling water. Dump the drink into a great big oversized cup to mix well. Pour it back into your glass and enjoy. Just finished one. Like a little bit of summer in December.

When I was a kid, the soda fountain drink of choice at the "candy store" was a chocolate egg cream. But on really hot days, only a lime rickey would do.
I don't think I've even seen or heard about them in thirty years.

Oh, and I think they were a twenty five cents back then.

The pity of growing up here is that my child has never, ever even HEARD of an egg cream, much less tasted one.

Adding a little raspberry syrup to make the Raspberry Lime Rickey is pretty good too.

Then you can always replace the simple syrup in your recipe with gin for a Gin Rickey. Yum.

The pity of growing up here is that my child has never, ever even HEARD of an egg cream, much less tasted one.

Why not make him one? You've got to get his mind right.
Fox's UBet chocolate syrup is available online.
Check it out.

What a reverie !! My last Lime Rickey was as a small girl on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. My first family vacation. I though it all so interesting and exotic-a huge vat of limes, freshly squeezed and mixed with great florish. Wonderful to sip slowly while ambling along taking in all the wonderful sounds, aromas and people. Had to have one every evening stroll. It was a wonderful vacation

Lime (and Raspberry lime) Rickeys are one of the great things about living in the Bay state. I can get them at just about every ice cream joint.

Love them. Drink gallons every summer.

...Like a little bit of summer in December.

Yes -- don't know it by that name but gotcha. There is something magic in good citrus ... evidence of cosmic order.