This reminds me of spending my summers in Mexico as a kid, drinking aguas frescas of all flavors, but getting a cold mango on a stick with salt, lime juice, and chilly powder (Tajin) was the best. I would eat and drink myself sick and then eat and drink some more.
I used to live in El Paso, TX when I was young. We would frequently go to Mexico, and I remember seeing the huge glass containers full of agua frescas. I always wondered what they tasted like. Thank you for this recipe. 😊 I’m going to the grocery store to buy a watermelon. 🥰
Sounds great. When I was growing up in Duncan Oklahoma, my Dad would lease about 100 acres to grow crops, and one was black diamond watermelons, probably 25-40 acres. We kids would ride on the back of that 3 or 4 bottom plow to help break through. And I remember the smell of the soil and watching at my feet as that dark rich bottom soil was turned over. They get huge and are almost all heart. We would put one in a tub with ice and eat 'till we were likely to burst. One year we entered our biggest in the Stevens county fair, and won the blue ribbon. I think it was about 60 pounds. P.S. Someone mentioned vodka and it reminded me that some of the older cousins would cut a plug out of one and dump an entire 5th into it, and let it sit for a few hours on ice. And the high school football team, The Duncan Demons, would raid the field at night every year. Dad would get so mad. Even though he played on that team back in the '40s. c1960s. Good memories. Hard times though. My dad was a welder for Haliburton, Navy trained during the Korean war. So the farming was to supplement his income. We sold produce, milk, butter and lots of eggs. Dad was gone alot. All across the country. So us kids, 6 of us, took care of the farm. Would like to hear stories from other rural folks. We were the real life Waltons, Grampaws family was the family from Shenandoah, with Jimmy Stewart, as there was 12 kids. Yup, I got hundreds of cousins, all over these United States.
Speaking of pickled watermelon rind, my Gramma loved sweet pickles. When she finished eating a jar of any sweet pickles, she saved the leftover juice in the original jar in the fridge. Then in watermelon season she saved and chopped the rind and used her collection of leftover pickle juices to pickle her rind. Easy and free.
🍉🍋INGREDIENTS🍋🍉 -8 cups chopped watermelon -2 cups water -2 tablespoons agave syrup OR honey -"hefty" pinch salt -¼ cup (or more) lime juice to serve: -ice -mint sprigs
Oh I think that was a fabulous recipe! The only thing that I would add which I actually think would cut it and make it more refreshing would be some sparkling water added to the big craft and that sounds so good
Fun recipe! We also do it at home with frozen watermelon and frozen lime. Remove all the lime rind and freeze. Than add water than the frozen lime and watermelon and tequila ! Delish
That sounds so delicious. I've been using watermelon 🍉 in my smoothies with other fruits in the mornings n it tastes delicious as well. Thank You for the share.
Excellent! Overripe watermelon is a texture nightmare but works perfectly here! Also freeze the chunks, put in the blender with some sweetener and viola watermelon sorbet!
This brings back fond memories from when I was cooking professionally --- everyone drinking agua frescas out of quart deli containers in the hot kitchen.
You're welcome, Julia! I so LOVE watermelon! 🍉 It's my all-time very favorite fruit. So beautiful! I really wanted to jump in the screen & grab that carafe! Mmmmmm. Perfect for fourth of July. 🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲
As it happens, I had just the right watermelon for the job! I did subsitute a bit of strawberry no-calorie sparkling water for the blender water, and lemon for limes - only because it was at hand. At any rate, this was absoultely delicious, refreshing, and worthy to make again many times this summer.
you might find you need to water it down some as watermelon isn't very acidic all on its own. you'll want to cut the acid of whatever you use by quite a bit and then add flavors that compliment your main. I might try papaya with lime following this same form. it reminds me of the makeup of papaya sorbet.
You have always been my Favorite at ATKs! Love this idea for Summer! Some Vodka or Tequila would be Fun! I'm doing something from John Kirkwood on UA-cam. A Lemon and Orange Loaf cake that looks wonderful! He's from England and says he's a retired cook. Very enjoyable videos with alot of Positive feedback from his recipes. Love seeing you on UA-cam! And love the highlights in your hair! All the best to one of the Best! ♥️🍀🌹♥️🍀🌹♥️🍀♥️
@@captainamericaamerica8090 wow I’m surprised. I’ve had less expensive ones that were more than a dollar but they either got disfigured, fell apart, or rusted. Do you run yours through the dishwasher?
@@billsedutto8824 Is it? OXOs are known for their Good Grips name and that hard wire handle doesn't look very OXO-y to me. I have strainers by OXO in 3 sizes and they all have a nice black squishy cover over the wire on the handle.
This reminds me of the cafeteria at a previous job. They had agua fresca... except it was just water with slices of fruit dumped into it, so it was just water that might have smelled vaguely of whatever fruit was in it, lol.
Pineapple, Mango, Peach, Coconut, Horchata from Mexico is made with white rice, and Berries Strawberries, Raspberries and Blue Berries and they can be Combined Use lemon or lime to taste! 😋
Just had enough of an "almost done" watermelon and a couple of lazy limes and BANG! This is something to behold! LOVE this! Thank you, Julia!
This reminds me of spending my summers in Mexico as a kid, drinking aguas frescas of all flavors, but getting a cold mango on a stick with salt, lime juice, and chilly powder (Tajin) was the best. I would eat and drink myself sick and then eat and drink some more.
I used to live in El Paso, TX when I was young. We would frequently go to Mexico, and I remember seeing the huge glass containers full of agua frescas. I always wondered what they tasted like. Thank you for this recipe. 😊 I’m going to the grocery store to buy a watermelon. 🥰
Mary Ann, I'm from El Paso too! I enjoy aqua frescas and this recipe is especially delicious. I had one recently that was pineapple and coconut.
@@biancac602 Awesome! How did you make your coconut pineapple? I’m living N of Austin now
Sounds great. When I was growing up in Duncan Oklahoma, my Dad would lease about 100 acres to grow crops, and one was black diamond watermelons, probably 25-40 acres. We kids would ride on the back of that 3 or 4 bottom plow to help break through. And I remember the smell of the soil and watching at my feet as that dark rich bottom soil was turned over. They get huge and are almost all heart. We would put one in a tub with ice and eat 'till we were likely to burst. One year we entered our biggest in the Stevens county fair, and won the blue ribbon. I think it was about 60 pounds.
P.S. Someone mentioned vodka and it reminded me that some of the older cousins would cut a plug out of one and dump an entire 5th into it, and let it sit for a few hours on ice.
And the high school football team, The Duncan Demons, would raid the field at night every year. Dad would get so mad. Even though he played on that team back in the '40s. c1960s. Good memories. Hard times though. My dad was a welder for Haliburton, Navy trained during the Korean war. So the farming was to supplement his income. We sold produce, milk, butter and lots of eggs. Dad was gone alot. All across the country. So us kids, 6 of us, took care of the farm. Would like to hear stories from other rural folks. We were the real life Waltons, Grampaws family was the family from Shenandoah, with Jimmy Stewart, as there was 12 kids. Yup, I got hundreds of cousins, all over these United States.
Great memory!
I feel like I just read a Reader's digest article. It flows so beautifully. Thank you for that journey. God bless you.
Speaking of pickled watermelon rind, my Gramma loved sweet pickles. When she finished eating a jar of any sweet pickles, she saved the leftover juice in the original jar in the fridge. Then in watermelon season she saved and chopped the rind and used her collection of leftover pickle juices to pickle her rind. Easy and free.
My mom does that, but uses tomatoes!!
I save the juice from trader Joe's sweet and spicy peppers and add carrot sticks. Thanks for the great idea!! I'll do that.
I do it too as a chicken brine. Delicious
🍉🍋INGREDIENTS🍋🍉
-8 cups chopped watermelon
-2 cups water
-2 tablespoons agave syrup OR honey
-"hefty" pinch salt
-¼ cup (or more) lime juice
to serve:
-ice
-mint sprigs
I will definitely try this! Thanks for showing!
Julia, that looks delicious! It’s a fun drink for the whole family!
I'm having a taco buffet for a celebration party for my daughter who is going off to college and this would be perfect drink on the buffet!
This looks so refreshing for our hot summer days! Thanks for sharing this! Can't wait to try! And possibly add some vodka, or gin.
Oh I think that was a fabulous recipe! The only thing that I would add which I actually think would cut it and make it more refreshing would be some sparkling water added to the big craft and that sounds so good
Or even some very dry champagne
Can't wait to make this with some fresh watermelon this summer!
Fun recipe! We also do it at home with frozen watermelon and frozen lime. Remove all the lime rind and freeze. Than add water than the frozen lime and watermelon and tequila ! Delish
More line juice and a little tequila and that turns into a great watermelon margarita!
I would love your pickled watermelon rind recipe.
That sounds so delicious. I've been using watermelon 🍉 in my smoothies with other fruits in the mornings n it tastes delicious as well. Thank You for the share.
This is really good! I've made it three batches.
Sweet and Sour, must be delicious. I will try it. :)
Excellent! Overripe watermelon is a texture nightmare but works perfectly here! Also freeze the chunks, put in the blender with some sweetener and viola watermelon sorbet!
did not know watermelon rind could be pickled and eaten. i would love to see a recipe video for that!
I had an aunt who made it. It was delicious. I remember it being sweet and tasting of cloves maybe but I never knew the recipe. I'm curious now.
love Julia!!
I am totally making this! Thanks
I love watermelon. That looks so refreshing.
I froze the watermelon cubes first. AMAZING!!!
This brings back fond memories from when I was cooking professionally --- everyone drinking agua frescas out of quart deli containers in the hot kitchen.
You're welcome, Julia!
I so LOVE watermelon! 🍉
It's my all-time very favorite fruit. So beautiful!
I really wanted to jump in the screen & grab that carafe! Mmmmmm.
Perfect for fourth of July.
🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲
This like all of Julia's dish looks DELICIOUS
Would like a big glass now!! 🍉
As it happens, I had just the right watermelon for the job! I did subsitute a bit of strawberry no-calorie sparkling water for the blender water, and lemon for limes - only because it was at hand. At any rate, this was absoultely delicious, refreshing, and worthy to make again many times this summer.
Stick of the watermelon itself in the pickle juice after 2-3 days… are to die for! Keep adding and keep tasting the juice - replenish salt as needed 😄
This is a must have.
I guess this would work with other fruits as well? Like kiwi, star fruit, etc.
you might find you need to water it down some as watermelon isn't very acidic all on its own. you'll want to cut the acid of whatever you use by quite a bit and then add flavors that compliment your main. I might try papaya with lime following this same form. it reminds me of the makeup of papaya sorbet.
It's really good with strawberries, but by me right now seedless watermelons are going for $3.99, so they're really economical -- at least for now.
Yep I'm Mexican-American and you can make agua fresca out of any fruit, water, and sugar!
Made it. It is bomb. Thank you
Just made it...Absolutely delicious!!
It looks delicious. Im going to try it very soon. Thank you.
What about to add some small watermelon chunkies into the agua fresca, and enjoy it
Thank you, what a great idea Of how to use the watermelons.
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Awesome foods. Thank you
Cool. I'll try it tomorrow.
I love your drinking goblets, what's the link for those? I'm trying this recipe for sure. I love watermelon.
Yummy! I will have to make this for sure
Love this!! Thank you!
Look so refreshing and delicious
This looks so delicious!
Very refreshing
That will look really good served by my pool. 😀
Thank you! This looks delicious :)
Where did you get your beautiful knife and glasses?
Frozen watermelon... Tequila, lime juice, agave syrup... Skip that water 🤤
You have always been my
Favorite at ATKs! Love this idea for Summer!
Some Vodka or Tequila would be Fun!
I'm doing something from
John Kirkwood on UA-cam.
A Lemon and Orange Loaf cake that looks wonderful!
He's from England and says he's a retired cook. Very enjoyable videos with alot of
Positive feedback from his recipes.
Love seeing you on UA-cam!
And love the highlights in your hair! All the best to one of the
Best! ♥️🍀🌹♥️🍀🌹♥️🍀♥️
Where's the booze? You GOTTA add some vodka or some tequila to that!
What do i think? I think I need to reach through your camera and snatch it. It's 104° in the shade today here. It looks mighty good. Houston.
Gotta add some lime zest 🤤
add 1/4 to 1/2 cup vodka, mix and freeze and you get an excellent watermelon sorbet.
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I use two strainers to get an even smoother drink
You're expert
Never heard of this drink before and will definitely be making it soon.
Need to instill some Everclear (not bourbon or rye flavors) into that drink - and have a melony drink that will mellow anybody out in the summer heat.
Just lime salt the rim as well ...
I think a pinch of ginger would be a good addition.
Wow, that blender doh!
The perfect concoction to spike with some alcohol for the adults ;)
Ok love you watermelon fresh water thank you and May God Bless 🙏
Super easy! Think I may make an adult version…..adding tequila.
Where’s the vodka?! Trader Joe’s has an excellent chili lime salt. Delicious on watermelon
Get a filter for your faucet and ditch the bottled water ;)
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Can you make this drink with less salt....?
I need that strainer
It’s an Oxo. Worth every penny.
Edit: Realized after posting that she isn’t actually aiding the ATK recommended Oxo Good Grips strainer here.
@@billsedutto8824 we have a dollar one! From dollar tree
Works great Every time.12 years now
@@captainamericaamerica8090 wow I’m surprised. I’ve had less expensive ones that were more than a dollar but they either got disfigured, fell apart, or rusted. Do you run yours through the dishwasher?
@@billsedutto8824 My granny hand washes it.
@@billsedutto8824 Is it? OXOs are known for their Good Grips name and that hard wire handle doesn't look very OXO-y to me. I have strainers by OXO in 3 sizes and they all have a nice black squishy cover over the wire on the handle.
Could you add an alcohol to this? Or would that ruin it? If it is possible, what would one suggest?
A nice shot of vodka in there would elevate this to the next level😄🍸
Mint in face: Check.
This reminds me of the cafeteria at a previous job. They had agua fresca... except it was just water with slices of fruit dumped into it, so it was just water that might have smelled vaguely of whatever fruit was in it, lol.
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So cool. Definitely will make it.
💝💕🙏🙏
I'll be making this shortly and committing later..
It's absolutely delicious 😋
Why the lime??
You need the acid to balance the sweet.
Where is the Vodka ???
sexy knife! what is it?
If you sling that knife around like that in my kitchen, prepare to get messed up!
there is a missing main ingredient from that.
...shaken, not stirred...
Looks great. Too bad the choice was made to model wasteful plastic bottle of water.
I can do a somersault
Get a water filter Julia.
bottled water tastes like plastic
Needs tequila instead o the water
Use tap water because ATK lives in a bubble where EVERYBODY has money!!!
Guess that whole underpaid staff unionization thing escaped you?
That is not a very red watermelon. Do you have other fruits that would make a great agua Fresca?
Look it up . I know other melons work well.
Pineapple, Mango, Peach,
Coconut, Horchata from Mexico is made with white rice, and
Berries Strawberries, Raspberries and Blue Berries and they can be Combined
Use lemon or lime to taste! 😋
Sad to see bottled water used for such a bulk recipe :(
No.