Some recipes call for the fruit to be pureed or blended with the alcohol, while others simply ... a splash of soda water for ...

Strain fruit and herbs on day two. To make a drink, pour 2 ounces of the batch into a Collins glass, add ice and stir quickly. Top with sparkling or tonic water. Garnish with fruit or flower.

If you’re making drinks ... fruit) and freezing your own ice is easy. You can make your own sugar syrup too – it’s a 1:2 ratio of water to sugar. Follow the method in this French 75 recipe.

The effortless wonders that can be accomplished with fruit ... A recipe in name only, this is more an assemblage of ingredients — which is precisely what you need during the heat of summer.

Toss together any combination of fruits, ice, 100% fruit ... to both the alcohol and the mixers. And because frozen drinks go down easily, they can go right to your head in the summer heat.