Sour mix

Updated at: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:45:56 GMT

Step 1

To make a quart of your very own sour mix at home, which is enough for about 18 individual cocktails (!!!), start with 1 grapefruit, 4 limes, and 6 lemons. Give all the citrus a good scrub under cold water to get any schmutz off, and then use a vegetable peeler to remove wide strips of the zest from that grapefruit, all those limes, and three of the lemons. Toss all of the zest into a saucepan along with 1 cup of granulated sugar and ½ cup of water, bring the whole situation up to a simmer over medium heat and let it bubble, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is totally dissolved, which should only take 3 or 4 minutes. Take that saucepan off the heat to cool while you get juicing. (You can also set the saucepan in a bowl of ice water if you’re really in a hurry; it doesn’t need to be cold-cold, but it shouldn’t be super hot when you mix it with the citrus juice.)

Step 2

Now, using your citrus juicing-mechanism of choice, go to town on the zested and un-zested citrus. You’re ideally looking to get ½ cup grapefruit juice, ½ cup lime juice, and 1 cup lemon juice, which may mean that you don’t need to use all of your citrus depending on their juiciness. Strain the juice through a fine mesh sieve into a quart-sized jar or bottle, then strain your zest-infused simple syrup into the same vessel, close tightly, and shake to combine. Ta-da! Homemade sour mix that will stay good for three days in the fridge (if it lasts that long).

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