Cucumber Mint Limeade

2 to 3 Cucumbers	1 Honeydew Melon
1 cup Lime Juice	1//4 Cup Sugar, To taste
1 1/4 Cup Mint Leaves, Packed	2 Teaspoons Ball Food Protector, Optional

Slice cucumbers down the center lengthwise. Sandwich mint between cucumber halves as you feed it through a juicer. Remove rind and seeds from honeydew and put through juicer. Combine cucumber, mint, and honeydew juices with lime juice and sugar. Adjust to taste with more sugar or water as desired. If juice is to be stored for longer than a day, add Ball Food Protector (found in the canning section of the grocery store) to preserve color and freshness.

2017 Adapted Recipe - April Ferre - From "Simply Recipes," www.simplyrecipes.com

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"In my garden I have a wide variety of mint, ranging from your standard peppermint and spearmint to novelties such as strawberry mint and iced hazelnut mint, about 20 varieties in all!  So I began looking for ways to use it in the kitchen. Cucumbers also do well in my garden.  I once had a cucumber mint limeade at the Whole Earth Festival in Davis, so I based this recipe of that.  I added the honeydew for more nutrients and natural sugar, but you can just add water and more sugar if you don't have a honeydew handy." - April Ferre

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