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Shirley Temple Recipe

Shirley Temple
Difficulty: Easy | Total Time: | Makes: 1 drink

According to urban legend, the Shirley Temple was created by a bartender at Chasen’s, a Beverly Hills restaurant popular with the entertainment set in the 1930s. Rumor has it that a pint-sized regular liked to belly up with this grenadine-spiked soda. Chasen’s was shuttered in 1995, but here’s a refreshing homemade version of Shirley’s namesake drink for all you teetotalers and youngsters out there.

Game plan: You can use store-bought ingredients here, but you’ll get much tastier results with homemade maraschino cherries and grenadine.

This recipe was featured as part of our Nonalcoholic Cocktails photo gallery.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 1/4 ounces grenadine
  • 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
  • Ice
  • 3 ounces club soda
  • 2 maraschino cherries
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Place the grenadine, lemon juice, and lime juice in a tall glass and stir with a cocktail spoon or straw until combined.
  2. Fill the glass with ice and top with the club soda. Stir gently to combine.
  3. Garnish with the maraschino cherries and serve immediately.
    Write a review | 9 Reviews
  • Shirley Temple Recipe
    5

    As baby boomer who spent a fair amount of time in bars with her dad, I can tell you that the version that was commonly served in the sixties was indeed gingerale and grenadine. But I got to tell you, even the kid me would have liked this version better! This is improved!

  • Shirley Temple Recipe
    5

    Almost this identical combination is a familiar summertime drink in Argentina, called "Refresco de Granadina". I never saw the cherries in it though.

  • Shirley Temple Recipe
    1

    It's ginger ale, not club soda. No citrus juice. Just ginger ale and grenadine. And 2 cherries, 3 if the bartender likes you.

  • Shirley Temple Recipe
    5

  • Shirley Temple Recipe
    1

    Getting a real Shirley Temple requires some work, just to get proper grenadine. The stuff they sell now is merely dyed sugar syrup.

  • I've always had this with ginger ale - and my grandfather the bartender did them that way. The Roy Rogers was Coke and grenadine...

  • I thought ginger ale as well.....that is what I was served in many a bar in an airport when travelling with my parents.

  • Sounds wonderful...on my way to get cherries.

  • Hmmmm... I had always thought this was made with ginger ale instead of soda & citrus. Will have to try it this way.

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