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    Beverages

    Southern sips made simple—find easy drink recipes with shortcut methods using fresh ingredients or store-bought helpers for everything from sweet tea to holiday punches.

    • Pouring blackberry syrup over a stack of pancakes on a white plate
      Blackberry Simple Syrup
    • A glass punch bowl filled with creamy coffee punch, topped with scoops of melting ice cream
      Easy Coffee Punch
    • Iced Mocha punch in glass coffee mugs with whipped cream and chocolate shavings with pitcher next to them.
      Shortcut Mocha Punch
    • Sweet Tea Sangria "Skinny" Mocktail
    • Parfait glass of frozen strawberry sweet tea lemonade with blue bowl of berries in background.
      Frozen Strawberry and Sweet Tea Lemonade
    • clear mug of hot tea with orange slice
      Mulled Sweet Tea Apple Cider
    • A clear pitcher and two glasses of blackberry lemonade on a purple cloth. Glasses have blackberry and lemon slice garnishes.
      How to Make Shortcut Blackberry Lemonade
    • two tall glasses of tea over round mint ice cubes and garnished with peach slices
      Shortcut Peach Sweet Tea (optional Mint Ice Cubes)
    • Cranberry juice and fruit in a wine glass on white napkin.
      Cranberry Sangria Mocktail

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    Hi y'all! I’m Kathleen. I share Southern shortcut recipes! I’m a food stylist, cookbook author, and former test kitchen director in Alabama. I take traditional Southern recipes you know and love (and a few new ones) and make them with shortcuts so you can enjoy them faster.

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    Hi y'all! I’m Kathleen. I share Southern shortcut recipes! I’m a food stylist, cookbook author, and former test kitchen director in Alabama. I take traditional Southern recipes you know and love (and a few new ones) and make them with shortcuts so you can enjoy them faster.

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