Lemon Juice

Change of Address From Eric Nelson

June 28, 2021
5
2 Ratings
Photo by Alex Lau
  • Prep time 2 minutes
  • Serves 1
Author Notes

Eric Nelson doesn’t take cocktails—or life, really—too seriously. Seriously! His drinks are well crafted, but they also have a sense of humor, and I love the way he doctors everyday Coca-Cola with savory soy sauce in this recipe. The drink is a killer pairing for a burger. —Julia Bainbridge

Test Kitchen Notes

Reprinted with permission from Good Drinks: Alcohol-Free Recipes for When You’re Not Drinking for Whatever Reason by Julia Bainbridge, copyright © 2020. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. —The Editors

What You'll Need
Ingredients
  • 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 3/4 ounce maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon soy sauce
  • 3 ounces Coca-Cola
  • Freshly grated cinnamon, for garnish
Directions
  1. Combine the lemon juice, maple syrup, and soy sauce in a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice, seal the shaker, and shake just to combine, about 3 seconds. Add the Coca-Cola, then double-strain into a collins glass filled with crushed ice. To serve, grate cinnamon over the top.

See what other Food52ers are saying.

Julia Bainbridge is an editor who has worked at Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, Yahoo Food, and Atlanta Magazine and a James Beard Award-nominated writer whose stories have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among others. Her book, Good Drinks: Alcohol-Free Recipes for When You're Not Drinking for Whatever Reason, was named one of the best cookbooks of 2020 by the Los Angeles Times and Wired and Esquire magazines. Julia is the recipient of the Research Society on Alcoholism's 2021 Media Award and she is one of Food & Wine magazine's 25 first-annual "Game Changers" for being "a pivotal voice in normalizing not drinking alcohol."

1 Review

Trillun June 28, 2021
This is a winner, the add ins give an earthiness to the drink. Very thirst quenching. I mixed it all up with Coke Zero. I preferred China Lily soya sauce over Kikkoman soya.