[BretWeir]

Mermade,

It's just regular sour mix, like you'd use to mix a whiskey sour. All the store-bought mixes I've tried have been cloyingly sweet with kind of a chemical aftertaste. So I mix my own: boil 1 cup water with 1 cup sugar to make simple syrup; cool and add 1 cup fresh lemon juice. Sometimes I throw in an egg white, which makes it foam a bit when you use it to mix drinks.

A couple of years ago, I made a big batch of asparagus for a dinner party and couldn't find the vinaigrette I was going to top it with, so I poured on a little sour mix and everybody loved it.