General of Darkness
9th July 2012, 08:10 AM
Thought I'd share this because dehydration is deadly.
Homemade Electrolyte Replenisher June 1, 2011 7 Comments (http://articles.earthlingshandbook.org/2011/06/01/homemade-electrolyte-replenisher/#comments)
Two years ago, thanks to The Cardamom’s Pod (http://thecardamomspod.com/2009/05/homemade-laborade/), I discovered the concept of Laborade, a beverage similar to a sports drink that’s easy to make at home from inexpensive ingredients. I now drink a tall glass of Laborade whenever I’m very hot and sweaty and draggy-feeling, or I’ve had a digestive upset but now I can keep down liquids again, or I feel thirsty even though I already drank some water, or I’m inexplicably dizzy (I’m prone to low blood pressure (http://articles.earthlingshandbook.org/2012/02/29/are-you-pregnant-and-dizzy/)). It makes me feel amazingly better very quickly!
But don’t drink it as a regular beverage. The simple rule is, if it tastes really good, you need it; if it tastes weird, you don’t.
Cardamom’s recipe makes a gallon (http://thecardamomspod.com/2009/05/homemade-laborade/), but since I have a much smaller family and we’re not farmers, we don’t drink it quickly enough to justify making it by the gallon. We make it by the glass.
Here’s my recipe for one serving of Laborade:
Put 5 ice cubes in a tall glass.
Sprinkle 2 tsp. sugar, 1/8 tsp. salt, and 1/8 tsp. baking soda over the ice.
Fill glass with cold water up to about 1 inch from the rim.
Mix thoroughly. If you don’t have a long-handled “iced tea spoon”, a chopstick works well.
Add 2 Tbsp. lemon juice (fresh or bottled–I just keep a bottle of lemon juice in the refrigerator door at all times) and 1 Tbsp. of a sweeter juice: orange, apple, grape, extra juice from your leftover canned fruit, whatever you have handy. (Cardamom recommends lime juice, but my family prefers a sweeter flavor.)
Mix again. Taste it, and adjust it if it doesn’t seem right. I usually think it needs more salt (that may be low blood pressure talking), and my six-year-old son thinks it needs more sugar!
The reason I mix the dry ingredients into the water before adding the juice is that mixing full-strength lemon juice with baking soda creates a dramatic fizz which, while exciting, does not taste very good.
Homemade Electrolyte Replenisher June 1, 2011 7 Comments (http://articles.earthlingshandbook.org/2011/06/01/homemade-electrolyte-replenisher/#comments)
Two years ago, thanks to The Cardamom’s Pod (http://thecardamomspod.com/2009/05/homemade-laborade/), I discovered the concept of Laborade, a beverage similar to a sports drink that’s easy to make at home from inexpensive ingredients. I now drink a tall glass of Laborade whenever I’m very hot and sweaty and draggy-feeling, or I’ve had a digestive upset but now I can keep down liquids again, or I feel thirsty even though I already drank some water, or I’m inexplicably dizzy (I’m prone to low blood pressure (http://articles.earthlingshandbook.org/2012/02/29/are-you-pregnant-and-dizzy/)). It makes me feel amazingly better very quickly!
But don’t drink it as a regular beverage. The simple rule is, if it tastes really good, you need it; if it tastes weird, you don’t.
Cardamom’s recipe makes a gallon (http://thecardamomspod.com/2009/05/homemade-laborade/), but since I have a much smaller family and we’re not farmers, we don’t drink it quickly enough to justify making it by the gallon. We make it by the glass.
Here’s my recipe for one serving of Laborade:
Put 5 ice cubes in a tall glass.
Sprinkle 2 tsp. sugar, 1/8 tsp. salt, and 1/8 tsp. baking soda over the ice.
Fill glass with cold water up to about 1 inch from the rim.
Mix thoroughly. If you don’t have a long-handled “iced tea spoon”, a chopstick works well.
Add 2 Tbsp. lemon juice (fresh or bottled–I just keep a bottle of lemon juice in the refrigerator door at all times) and 1 Tbsp. of a sweeter juice: orange, apple, grape, extra juice from your leftover canned fruit, whatever you have handy. (Cardamom recommends lime juice, but my family prefers a sweeter flavor.)
Mix again. Taste it, and adjust it if it doesn’t seem right. I usually think it needs more salt (that may be low blood pressure talking), and my six-year-old son thinks it needs more sugar!
The reason I mix the dry ingredients into the water before adding the juice is that mixing full-strength lemon juice with baking soda creates a dramatic fizz which, while exciting, does not taste very good.