When I told Aunt Florence I was going to go to Erskine College in Due West, SC, she said, “Good – you’ll get a degree and a wife. There’s nothing else to do in Due West.” She was pretty much right – but when Ginny and I were in Due West there was Plaxco’s Drug Store. They had a soda fountain and a couple of booths. Their lemonades were fantastic. I got this recipe from the older pharmacist who worked there.
1 lemon
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 glass of ice and water
1 cherry
- Use the juice of a half lemon per glass – sometimes a whole lemon is needed.
- Pour the juice into a glass of ice water.
- Add a tablespoon of sugar
- Stir well.
- Throw the lemon peel into the glass
- Put the cherry on top
- Drink with a straw, slightly clinching your teeth so as not to swallow the seeds!
I grew up in Greenwood SC this is where I would journey to on hot summer days to cool off. Here is my take on the recipe. He would first pump simple syrup into the cup, then a few pumps of the lemon juice, (the simple syrup may have had lemon in it for I recall he would juice a fresh lemon in the process, fill almost with water and then just a splash of club soda out of the fountain at the end. And as you say add the cherry and a little juice.
ReplyDeleteTo make a decent amount do the following:
Juice from 6-8 Lemons
3/4 cup Sugar melted in 1 cup of water - your making simple syrup.
2 oz Club Soda per each drink you make added at the very end.
Maraschino Cherry and a little juice.
To make each individual drink.
In a glass filled with ice add 2 oz of simple syrup and 1 oz of lemon juice. Fill glass almost full with water and add 2 oz of club soda at the end. Garnish with cherry and a little of the juice.