TL;DR
When to Drink a White Tea Paloma Mocktail
– February for National Grapefruit Month
– Valentine’s Day
– On a sunny day
The Functional Benefit of this White Tea Paloma Mocktail
– Beautiful Skin
The Magickal Intent of this White Tea Paloma Mocktail
– Self-Love
The History Behind the Original Paloma Cocktail
Little is known about the historical origin of the Paloma cocktail, the most popular tequila-based drink in Mexico. Some believe that it is named after La Paloma (“The Dove”), the popular folk song composed in the early 1860s. Difford’s Guide claims it was created by the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner and bartender of La Capilla, in Tequila, Mexico.
Sweet, sour, salty and bitter, it hits four parts of your palate at once. Our mock version of this Paloma cocktail, with its signature honey-lime salt rim, is bound to make you fall in love.
What Makes this Paloma Mocktail “Functional?”
Grapefruit is low in calories and provides a significant amount of fiber and antioxidants. It also benefits your immune system by providing several vitamins and minerals known for their role in protecting the body against infection.
Grapefruit can promote fullness and reduce calorie intake and insulin resistance, which can lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Certain nutrients and antioxidants in grapefruit have been shown to help protect the heart by regulating blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Many of these antioxidants also help prevent the development of cancer.
Grapefruit contains vitamin C, often used in serums to heal the skin, brighten dark spots and smooth the skin surface. Studies show that an increased intake of vitamin C through foods like grapefruit may help combat these skin woes as well. Grapefruit also has a high water content and helps your body produce collagen, which benefits skin hydration and wrinkles.
The citric, malic and tartaric acids in grapefruit are the very same alpha-hydroxy acids used in skin care products for their ability to improve skin texture and elasticity. In tandem with the benefits of white tea, lime and honey, this pink grapefruit mocktail is bursting with the nutrients your skin needs to look its healthy best. The optional scoop of collagen peptide powder adds even more skin-boosting nourishment.
White Tea “Paloma” Mocktail’s Magickal Correspondence
Grapefruit boasts the magickal properties of purification and protection. Potent and aromatic, you can use the juice in a purification bath to cleanse away negativity or burn dried grapefruit peels to protect your space from low vibrational influences.
Use the essential oil in candle magick to aid in manifesting your intentions or while meditating to help focus your thoughts. Grapefruit is very cleansing to the aura and mental body, which helps clear away mental chatter. Once we minimize the confusion, we can more easily reclaim our power and spiritual purpose.
The aroma of grapefruit supports our sense of self-approval, especially when it comes to loving and honoring our bodies. Grapefruit helps you express gratitude for your strong physical vessel and all it does for you, and encourages healthy habits that come from a desire for vitality, not a need to “fix” things.
In keeping with the body-love vibes, eat grapefruit to gently heal lingering sexual hangups, or during a waning moon, to lift your spirits and give you a boost of energy.
How to Use This White Tea “Paloma” Mocktail in Your Magickal Practice
With the love-enhancing elements of grapefruit and lime in tandem with chili’s fiery heat, this mocktail promises to sear away the limiting beliefs and unkind mental chatter that impede the fidelity you deserve – from YOU. Purify and sweeten your identity statements with zesty citrus, salt and honey in this perfectly pink potion for loving and honoring your sacred Self.
Focus on the properties each ingredient brings to the mixture as you blend your concoction. Before you take your first sip, ask the spirit of the grapefruit and lime to support you in cultivating a felt sense of self-love.
Bringing your glass close to your heart, think of someone really easy for you to love, maybe it’s a pet or child, partner or a close friend. Feel your heart fill up with love, send that being love, and take a sip of your grapefruit mocktail.
Again holding the glass close to your heart, turn that same feeling of your heart overflowing towards yourself now, filling you up from your toes to the crown of your head. Drink in that love with every sip.
Whisper to yourself any loving statements that you long to hear.
I love you.
You are powerful.
My body is beautiful and strong.
Make this grapefruit mocktail recipe as part of your nightly ritual every day for one week. Allow grapefruit’s magick to cleanse your old stories out of the way, so the unconditional love of the universe can grant you awareness of your own badassery.
So mote it be.
White Tea “Paloma” Mocktail for Self-Love (and Glowing Skin)
Ingredients
Drink Base
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 bags white tea (cleansing, new beginnings)
- 3 1-inch cubes green bell pepper (love, self-awareness), muddled
- 5 black peppercorns (banish negativity), muddled
- 1 strip lime rind (healing, love, protection), bitter white removed
- pinch crushed red pepper (fidelity, love, fiery spice)
Mixers
- 2 tbsp honey, plus more for rim (purification, sweetness, prosperity)
- 1 ounce lime juice (healing, love, protection)
- 1 cup grapefruit juice, from 1-2 grapefruit (purification, mental clarity, manifestation) plus the zest, organic
- 5 dashes Hella Cocktail Co. Smoked Chili bitters optional to evoke a smoky mezcal vibe
- 1 scoop collagen powder optional, (read about how and why to add functional ingredients to your mocktails)
- ice
- seltzer to top, (I used unsweetened grapefruit flavor)
Garnish
- palmful fine-grained sea salt (prosperity, cleansing, protection)
- 1-2 grapefruit (zest)
Instructions
- Boil the water and add the tea bags and aromatics, if using. Steep for five minutes. Remove aromatics and squeeze out tea bags. Stir in collagen powder and honey until dissolved and place in fridge until chilled – at least 30 minutes.
- Zest the grapefruit, mixing the zest with a palmful of salt. Really rub the two together to incorporate the essential oils. Roll the rim of two bucket glasses in honey and then dip into the salt mixture.
- Juice grapefruit until you have one cup of juice. Add grapefruit juice, lime juice and your tea mixture to a shaker. Add ice, shake* and strain evenly into both glasses.
- Fill to the top with grapefruit seltzer and enjoy.
