Shirley Temple Drink

This non-alcoholic drink will refresh you \, sensitize your taste buds and also quench your thirst for drinking something worth swallowing. A Shirley Temple is a non-alcoholic mixed drink. It is typically made with ginger ale, a splash of grenadine and garnished with a maraschino cherry.  These days Shirley Temple is prepared by introducing something new to its recipes, like one may substitute lemon-lime soda or lemonade and sometimes orange juice in part, or in whole. Shirley Temple Drink is still loved by many and is a good option to select for non-alcoholic people.

This drink looks like a cocktail and very appealing to taste buds. Shirley Temples are generally served to children dining with adults in lieu of real cocktails.

The cocktail may have been invented by a bartender at Chasen's, a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, for serving then-child actress Shirley Temple. However, other claims to its origin have been made. Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman, and diplomat who used to be Hollywood's number one box-office draw as a child actress from the year 1935 to 1938.

 Shirley temple drink can be prepared using 3 ounces of lemon lime soda + 3 ounces of ginger ale+ a dash of grenadine and Maraschino cherry for garnish. You need to pour lemon-lime soda and ginger ale into a glass along with ice cubes. Then, you have to add a dash of grenadine. Finally, stir well your refreshing drink and top it off with a cherry. Your Shirley Temple Drink is ready.

Another recipe can also be helpful in making tasty drink at home. Put the grenadine, lemon juice, and lime juice in a tall glass and stir the mixture well with a cocktail spoon.

Then fill the glass with ice and then add to it club soda. Stir gently to mix it properly. Aftr that garnish with the maraschino cherries and serve to your kids at home and evn adults might like it.

Shriley Temple Drink is non-alcoholic but if alcohol is added to it then it takes the form of what is called popularly – “Dirty Shriley”. For making dirty Shirley tmpl drink one need to pour vodka over ice cubes in a highball glass. Then fill the glass with Sprite. Add grenadine, garnish with a cherry, and serve to your dear ones. The ingredients required for making dirty Shirley temple are 1 oz vodka; 5 - 6 oz Sprite® soda, 1 dash grenadine syrup.

Previously Virgin Shirley Temple used to be prepared by adding orange juice, but now people do not use orange juice any more. A thin slic of orange is used in place of orange juice.

It can also be prepared without using grenadine syrup (sweet tart syrup). One needs to heat the 4 cups of cherry juice over moderate heat as long as it does not start to simmer. Continue with the process until the juice is reduced by half. Then fill a glass with ice and add ⅔ sparkling water with ⅓ third grenadine. You can then serve it by garnishing it with citrus slices and maraschino cherries.