Arnold Palmer: Layered Iced Tea and Lemonade
By Joe
Source: Serious Eats — Maggie Hoffman, The Best Arnold Palmer (Half and Half Iced Tea + Lemonade).
A the best arnold palmer (half and half iced tea + lemonade) recipe for 6 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
Based on the listed ingredients, none of the 14 major EU allergens. Always check product labels.
Method
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Chill. Bring lemons to room temperature, next roll firmly against the counter in order to soften their rinds. Halve plus juice; tip juice in a sealable container plus chill. Cut rinds into 2.5 cm chunks. Toss with sugar in a big nonreactive mixing bowl, cover firmly with plastic, and leave to stand at room temperature, mixing once every 45 minutes or so, till sugar has completely dissolved, around 3 hours. (You can let the mixture stand upwards to 12 hours, if wanted.) Add 8 ounces (1 cup) of set-aside lemon juice to rind mixture. Mix well, next strain through a nonreactive fine sieve or piece of cheesecloth in a glass or ceramic container; discard rinds. The concentrated lemonade can be chilled for up to 1 week. Tip concentrated lemonade plus cold-brewed tea in a pitcher plus mix when ready to serve. Serve in ice-filled glasses.
Storage
Keep covered in the fridge and use within a few days.
EU nutrition claims
- Low fat: 0.3 g fat per 100 ml (limit ≤ 1.5 g)
- Low saturated fat: 0 g saturated fat per 100 ml, 0.3% of energy (limits ≤ 0.75 g and ≤ 10%)
- Low salt: 0 g salt per 100 ml (limit ≤ 0.3 g)
Per 100 ml of the finished dish, worked out from the nutrition per serving and the lowest likely cooked weight (about 204 ml a serving), so the true values are, if anything, lower. Thresholds from the Annex to EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. How we decide
Caffeine · Free sugars
- Per serving: about 25 mg caffeine (serving: 1 glass (about 125 ml brewed tea)). Source: about 125 ml brewed per serving × USDA FDC SR Legacy #173227 (brewed black tea, 20 mg/100 g).
- Scaling: making more servings does not change the caffeine in each serving; what counts is how many servings you drink in a day. 1 serving: 25 mg · 2 servings: 50 mg · 3 servings: 75 mg · 4 servings: 100 mg.
- General guideline: EFSA Scientific Opinion on the safety of caffeine (2015): for healthy adults, up to 200 mg in a single dose and up to 400 mg per day do not raise safety concerns. 1 serving = 6 % of 400 mg. EFSA
66.5 g per serving
133 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 266 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 324 kcal |
| Protein | 2.5 g |
| Carbohydrate | 87.8 g |
| of which sugars | 72.2 g |
| of which free sugars | 66.5 g |
| Fat | 0.7 g |
| of which saturates | 0.1 g |
| Fibre | 6.4 g |
| Salt | 0.01 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
0.8 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values
