{"id":265,"date":"2010-02-02T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=265"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:19:44","slug":"in-the-summer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"In the Summer Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst we were in Australia we caame across slush cocktail mixes, basically just add the necessary spirit to a cordial and freeze, ready for a cooling drink around the pool later on (Slush Puppie for adults \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p>I remember about 10 years ago Tesco sold something similar (but with the alcohol already mixed)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway the good old Internet has tracked down something similar on Firebox.com&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ice Republic Cocktails, sourced from New Zealand. Instead of a cordial the mix comes in a dehydrated form, but\u00a0add a litre of warm water and half a bottle of the required spirit, replace the screw cap and shake you have 1.6 litres of the cocktail ready to freeze (8 Hours).<\/p>\n<p>Having made up my first batch (the Pina Colada tastes great) it&#8217;s worth bearing in mind that whilst the instructions say to let it defrost for a few minutes before serving it&#8217;s going to take 20-30 minutes at UK room temperature before this stuff is pourable from the bag.<\/p>\n<p>For personal consumption\u00a0I suggest pouring it into ice-cream tubs so you can scoop it out as and when you need it.<\/p>\n<p>As before, perfect for those summer parties and barbeques, and if you&#8217;re going camping or on a picnic these make the perfect cooler block and drink combination \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst we were in Australia we caame across slush cocktail mixes, basically just add the necessary spirit to a cordial and freeze, ready for a cooling drink around the pool later on (Slush Puppie for adults \ud83d\ude42 ) I remember about 10 years ago Tesco sold something similar (but with the alcohol already mixed) Anyway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}