Magic butterfly pea lemonade
Lemonades
Do you believe in magic? Like most magic tricks, this one is based resoundingly in science. That doesn't detract from the fun and amazement of it, however. Never before has lemonade been so gosh darn fun. I call it magic butterfly lemonade or amazing color-changing lemonade, but you could also call it unicorn lemonade if you're into that sort of thing (I think Starbucks had a secret version of this on their menu along with those ghastly unicorn frappicinnos, the difference is this version is completely natural.) You heard me: there is nothing artificial about the color of this lemonade. The magic in this recipe comes from a little blue flower native to Southeast Asia called the butterfly pea. Tea made from these flowers starts out a rich, sapphire blue. Hard to believe, actually, that something that blue can come from nature (how many other truly blue foods are there? Not many.) When the pH of the blue tea is changed, in this case with the addition of lemon juice, it transforms into a
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