The drink · October
Barrio Logan Jamaica
One drink. It's still hot, and the pomegranates just came in.
Keep
- Sugar
- Cold water
- Ice
October adds
- 8 hibiscus tea bags
- 1 pomegranate
- 1 lime
Method
Put the tea bags in four cups of cold water and leave them in the fridge overnight — cold-steeped, hibiscus comes out bright rather than bitter. Take out the bags. Press the seeds from one pomegranate through a strainer and stir the juice in, with sugar to taste; start with a quarter cup and stop when it's tart-sweet, not sweet. Pour over ice with a squeeze of lime and a spoonful of whole seeds. The pitcher keeps four days.
Try another way
Half jamaica, half cold water
Lighter, for the hottest afternoons.
Lemon instead of lime
Softer and a little rounder.
Freeze some into ice cubes
So the last glass isn't watered down.
Less sugar, more seeds
If you want it closer to tart.