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Blueberries’ natural sweetness help create this full-flavored, elegant floral granita with minimum effort.

3 ounces vodka
2 cups blueberries
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 ounce Lilac Syrup (link)

Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until frosty and smooth. Transfer the mixture to a shallow container and freeze for 1 hour. Remove from the freezer, stir to create slush, and return to the freezer for another 2 hours. To serve, scrape the surface with a spoon and transfer the granita to serving glasses.

Sweetness is a key component to any good drink, helping balance acid, bitterness and even alcohol. Swap your regular simple syrup and processed sugars for these natural ones for a healthy dose of sweet nutrients. Here’s my recommended list of natural sweeteners to keep your drinks naturally sweet.

Coco for Coconut
Made of 100% pure coconut tree sap, raw coconut nectar is an amber colored, low-glycemic sweetener contains 17 amino acids and several minerals. Raw Coconut Nectar is 90% fructose, but it contains far more minerals and nutrients than any agave syrup.

Mighty Molasses
Blackstrap Molasses contains less sugar than white sugar, brown sugar, regular molasses, or dark molasses, yet far more minerals electrolytes. So, when you add a tablespoon of blackstrap molasses to your cocktail, you’re getting more calcium than a cup of raw spinach, and twice the potassium of a banana and almost 100mg of magnesium. Featuring a robust bittersweet flavor, blackstrap molasses is a fantastic sweetener that will add complexity and subtle sweetness to cocktails while also adding a dose of healthy nutrients to your libation.

Tapping into Maple Syrup
Researchers refer to maple syrup as an “anti-oxidant cocktail of beneficial compounds” that contains some of the beneficial compounds of berries, teas, and flax seeds. Make sure to buy 100% Maple Syrup.

The Best Date
Date Sugar is 100% dehydrated dates ground into small pieces. It is a whole food, high in fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

The Buzz on Honey
According to Ayurvedic medicine, honey is revered as one of the five elixirs of immortality. Although, not a vegan option, honey has so many healing and restorative properties, it remains one of my top sweeteners of choice.

Drinking to good health might sound like an oxymoron, but a closer look at the history of spirits shows that healing ailments has always been at the root of cocktail culture. In fact, cocktails were originally created in early pharmacies and apothecaries all the way up until the beginning of the twentieth century.

Prepared Tinctures
The earliest known pharmacist-prepared tinctures, bitters, elixirs and tonics where made with herbs, flowers, fruits and yes, even vegetables laced in alcohol, which preserved their healing properties. These potions where custom made using botanicals grown right in the apothecaries to ensure freshness and potency, then shaken or stirred and given to the patient as a prescriptive.

A Restorative Cocktail
These restorative cocktails served people well, curing ailments ranging from an upset stomach to scurvy. In fact, what is simply known to modern cocktail lovers, as a gin and tonic, was first introduced by the British East India Company to prevent malaria amongst its soldiers in India.

Cocktail’s Curative Qualities
It wasn’t until 1906, that the government got involved and began to move alcohol-based cocktails out of pharmacies and into the cocktail bar, where their curative qualities became an afterthought.