A sparkling, sunny glass of fresh orange and lemon rounded out with pineapple, blushed with a touch of grenadine and lengthened with soda for a light, lively fizz. It drinks cold, bright and a little tart, the grenadine softening the citrus edge while a few optional dashes of Angostura lend a faint spiced depth beneath the fruit.
Garnish: Orange Wheel, Maraschino Cherry
shaken · Collins · On the Rocks
add
Add the orange, pineapple, and lemon juices plus the grenadine (and bitters, if using) to a shaker.
shake
Fill with ice and shake hard until well chilled, about 10 seconds.
strain
Strain into a Collins glass filled with fresh cubed ice.
top
Top with the soda water and stir gently to combine.
garnish
Garnish with an orange slice and, if desired, a maraschino cherry.
No inventor or birthplace has ever been attached to the Cinderella — it is a widely poured alcohol-free mixed drink whose beginnings simply went unrecorded. What the record does show is broad agreement on its shape: orange, pineapple and lemon juice with grenadine, shaken, strained over ice in a tall glass and finished with something sparkling, whether soda water or ginger ale. Bitters are the one element bars treat as optional. The fairy-tale name suits a drink meant to feel like an occasion without a drop of spirit.