COCKTAIL TIPS
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
Sugar Syrup: Prepared by mixing one measure
sugar with one measure water, bring to the boil.
Let the solution become cold, keep in refrigerator.
Keeps for weeks, but not indefinetly, remake every two weeks
at least.
Oz. measures: These measures are converted from centiliter
(abbreviation cl) measures, to US fluid ounces. Note that
British fluid ounces are different. Drink Categories:
Equipment
Many different contraptions are manufactured for the making
of cocktails.
Some of these are useful, some can be definetely nice to
have, and still others are totally and utterly useless. It
is up to you
to decide exactely what your cocktail equipment should be,
but some things are essential.
First out of the essentials is the cocktail shaker.
There are two basic types of shakers available. A
European cocktail shaker is usually
made out of metal, or glass with a metal top. It is,
basically, a container which holds about half a liter,
fitted with a top which closes
tightly around the upper edges of the container. This top
also has a smaller top, usually fitted with a built-in
strainer, through which the shaken cocktail is poured.
American shakers, however, consist of two
cones about the same size. One is often often made of
glass, and the other is metallic. These
cones are held together to form a closed
container, and the shaken cocktail is poured from either
one. Most American shakers do not have
built-in strainers, so if you use an
American shaker, using a seperate strainer is a good idea.
Measures, also known as jiggers, are also essential.
Jiggers are most often made of metal, but
glass jiggers are common, as well. The standard
measurements of a jigger can vary widely,
depending on where you
are. In the recipies in the following articles, I will
use a standard
jigger of 30ml (ca 1 fl oz).
In addition to the equipment mentioned above, you will find
that things like these are nice to
have, as well: Ice bucket, jugs, electric
blender, bowls, etc. You should also have access to
ordinary kitchenware, such as knives,
corkscrews, chopping board, etc. You will also need
stirrers (also known as swizzle sticks),
straws, toothpicks, serviettes and cloths.
Glasses
Cocktail glasses come in four different basic types:
First, there are the glasses known as rocks glasses, also
known as tumblers. These glasses are
usually short and broad glasses, with straight or slightly
sloping sides. They normally hold
about 125ml and are used for spirits with ice, fruit
juices and short drinks.
Second, there is the highball glass. These glasses
are usually of medium width, and are
tall with straight or slightly sloping sides. They
normally hold between 200 and 300ml and are used for long
drinks with ice.
Third, the champagne glasses, are of two different kind.
The most common, the champagne flute,
is a tall and narrow glass with a stem.
Champagne flutes have thin-glassed sides, and the long,
tapering sides can curve both inward and
outward. A champagne flute holds approximately 150ml.
The second type of champagne glass is the less-known
champagne saucer. The champagne saucer is a
broad and shallow glass with a stem. The broadness and
shallowness of tha glass make the champagne
loose its
fizz quickly, and the glass is therefore less popular than
it once was.
It is still, however, in use, and such cocktails as the
Margarita use exclusively such glasses.
Fourth is the group known as cocktail glasses. These are
the classic cocktail glasses; stemmed
and with sharply sloping sides, making it Y-shaped when
seen from the side. The classic cocktail
glass holds about
90ml and is best suited for short, strong drinks.
In addition to these glasses, some drinks, such as the Pina
Colada,
have special glasses. Unless you are really serious about
mixing your cocktails, you don't
really need to buy such glasses. Use glasses you already
have instead. There are also other
glasses available that will work just fine with
cocktails. Use your imagination, but remember
that plastic glasses (or shakers, jugs, mixing glasses, or
other such equipment for that matter)
should NEVER be used with cocktails, as it will make the
cocktail taste of plastic. A cocktail is
supposed to have a refreshing taste, not to taste like the
inside of a used plastic bag.
Mixing a Cocktail
Not all cocktails are made in the same manner. Just
as the ingredients
may vary, there are several ways in which to mix a
cocktail. The most
frequently used methods are the following:
- Shaking: The cocktail is mixed by hand in a cocktail
shaker.
The shaker is first filled three quarters with ice,
preferably cubes, as crushed ice will tend
to melt and dilute the cocktail. The ingredients
are then poured on top of the ice, in order of alcohol
content (highest first). When shaking a
cocktail, hold the shaker in both hands, one hand on the
top and the other supporting the base of
the shaker, and shake vigorously. When water has begun
condensing on the outside of the shaker,
the cocktail is sufficiently chilled, and the cocktail
should
immediately be strained into the glass. In general,
shaking creates a colder cocktail than
stirring does, but also a more cloudy one.
- Stirring: The cocktail is stirred with a glass or
metal rod in a mixing glass, before the
cocktail is strained into a glass. As with
shaking, crushed ice should not be used, and water
condensing on the outside shows that the
cocktail is finished.
- Blending: An electric blender is used to mix fruit
juices, alcohol, fruit, etc. Blending is
an excellent way of mixing ingredients which do
not blend easitly in any other way. Blend the cocktail
till it has reached a smooth
consistency. If the recipe requires ice, add crushed ice
last, but be careful not to add too
much, as the cocktail may be
watered down. Blending is a much disputed method of
mixing a cocktail,
and in general, blending should be avoided unless the
recipe demands it.
- Building: When building a cocktail, the ingredients
are poured into the glass in which the
cocktail will be served. Usually, the ingredients are
floated on top of each other, but
occationally, a swizzle stick is
put in the glass, allowing the ingredients to be mixed.
Decorating Cocktails
Almost all cocktails are decorated in one way or
another, most often with some kind of
fruit, but no matter the exact decoration, cocktail sticks
are almost always invaluable. Cocktail
sticks come in two types;
Wooden and plastic. Wooden sticks are most often used,
and are suited for just about any kind
of cocktail, but they cannot be reused. plastic sticks,
however, should be carefully used, as
they tend to give the cocktail a slightly artificial
appearance. Unlike wooden sticks, plastic
ones can be reused, but should be carefully washed and
boiled first.
Cocktail sticks are, whatever the type, used for spearing
slices of fruit, cherries, and just
about anything else you care to decorate your
cocktails with. Straws are also essential and go well
with highballs.
Straws should not be reused. The traditional cocktail
garnish is, however, the red Maraschino
cherries. These are used in just about any kind of
cocktail, and are now also available in green,
yellow and blue.
In addition to this, slices of fruit, strips of orange or
lemon peel, mint twigs, etc. can also
be used.
One often used method of decorating cocktails is that
which is called frosting. Frosting leaves
an edge of sugar, salt, cocoa, or any
other fine powder, on the rim of the glass. There are
several ways to frost glasses, and one of
the most frequently used of them is this: Rub the rim of
the glass with a slice of orange or
lemon, then submerge the rim in sugar or salt (or any
other powder), just so that it lines the
top of the rim. Other methods use egg white or other
substances for 'gluing'
the powder to the glass. For a more coclorful frosting,
use small drops of food coloring in the
powder. With some cocktails, such as the
Margarita, frosting is a 'standard' decoration.
Recipe
Non-Alcoholic Cocktails
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Afterglow
1 part Grenadine
4 parts Orange Juice
4 Parts Pineapple juice
Mix. Serve over ice.
Alice
1 cl (0.33 oz) Grenadine Syrup
1 cl (0.33 oz) Orange juice
2 cl (0.67 oz) Pineapple juice
4 cl (1.35 oz) Cream
Shake well, strain into a large cocktail
glass.
Apple Karate
2 cups apple juice or cider
1 large carrot, peeled and chopped
Place all ingredients in the blender jar -
cover and whiz on medium
speed until well blended. Pour in one
tall, 2 medium or 3 small glasses
and drink up.
Baby Cocktail
Shake half Pineapple juice and cream
well.
Berry-Berry
1 cup berries
1 cup milk
1 tblsp honey
Place all ingredients in the blender jar -
cover and whiz on medium
speed until well blended. Pour in one
tall, 2 medium or 3 small glasses
and drink up.
Black and Blue Berries
1 cup blue or black berries
1 cup soda water
2 tblsp honey or sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
Place all ingredients in the blender jar -
cover and whiz on medium
speed until well blended. Pour in one
tall, 2 medium or 3 small glasses
and drink up.
Bobby Cocktail
1 cl (0.33 oz) Orange juice
1 cl (0.33 oz) Lemon juice
1 teaspoon sugar syrup
6 cl (2 oz) cream
Shake well and strain into a large
cocktail glass.
Bora-Bora
10 cl (3.38 oz) Pineapople juice
6 cl (2 oz) Passion fruit juice
1 cl (0.33 oz) Lemon juice
1 cl (0.33 oz) Grenadine syrup
Prepare in a blender or shaker, serve in
a long drink glass on the
rocks. Garnish with 1 slice of pineapple
and one cherry.
Cranberry Juice Cocktail
1 lb (0.5 kg) cranberries
5 cups (1 1/4) liters water
salt
2 or 3 orange slices (optional)
0.5 cup (125 ml) sugar
Wash the cranberries and put them into
a nonreactive saucepan with the
water, a pinch of salt and if you wish,
the orange slices. Cook over
medium heat until all the berries burst --
about 10 minutes.
Pour the fruit and liquid into a
cheesecloth-lined sieve. Strain the
juice to the saucepan, add the sugar and
boil for two or three minutes.
Taste and add more sugar if it is
needed. Cool and chill the juice
before serving.
End Wrench
1 part orange juice
1 part tonic water
Ice
Tastes remarkably like a screwdriver.
Grapefruit Cocktail
Mix 2 cl (0.67 oz) Orange juice and 6 cl
(2 oz) Grapefruit juce, stir
with ice in a mixing glass, strain off into
a large cocktail glass.
Grapefruit Lemonade
Place some ice cubes in a large tumbler,
add 2 cl (0.67 oz) Grenadine
syrup and 6 cl (2 oz) Grapefruit juice, top
up with Soda Water. Stir
a little and serve with a drinking straw.
Hot Buttered Rum Batter
1 lb dark brown sugar
0.5 lb salted butter
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. ground white cardamom
1 tsp vanilla
Hot Buttered Rum Batter No. 2
0.5 cup brown sugar
0.5 cup white sugar
0.5 lb butter
1 pint good quality vanilla ice cream
In either case blend all ingredients in a
food processer or mixer and
store in the fridge or freezer.
To make a drink add a shot of good dark
rum along with 1 or 2 tbl spoons
of batter to a mug of very hot water.
Hot Lemonade
Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into a 10-oz.
glass. Add 2Tbs maple syrup
and a dash of cayenne pepper. Fill with
ice water. Stir. Drink.
Lemon Cocktail
Stir 2 cl (0.67 oz) Orange juice and 6 cl
(2 oz) Lemon juice with ice
in a mixing glass. Strain into a cocktail
glass.
Lemon Flip
Put several ice cubes in the shaker, 1
egg yolk, 2 tea spoons sugar
syrup, 4 cl (1.35 oz) lemon juice. Shake
very well and strain into a
long drink glass. Serve with a drinking
straw.
Lemon Squash
Mix 6-9 cl (2-3 oz) Lemon Juice with 2-3
tea spoons sugar syrup in a
long drink glass, stir well and fill up with
Soda Water. Serve with
drinking straw.
Lemonade
0.5 cup lemon juice
1-1.5 cups sugar
1 quart ice water
Lemonade #2 1 lemon (juice of) 2 tblsp
maple syrup 1
dash cayenne pepper ice water Squeeze
the juice of 1
lemon into a 10 oz. glass. Add 2 tblsp
maple syrup and
a dash of cayenne pepper. Fill with ice
water. Stir.
Drink. Forget about the heat.
Lemonade #3 2 cups plain or soda water
0.5 cup lemon juice
2 or more tblsp honey Place all
ingredients in the blender jar
- cover and whiz on medium speed until
well blended. Pour in
one tall, 2 medium or 3 small glasses and
drink up.
Lemonade Syrup (makes about 4-.5 cups)
1. Boil for 5
minutes: 2 cups sugar 1 cup water rind of
2 lemons, cut into
strips 1/8 tsp. salt Cool and add: juice
from 6 lemons Strain
the sirup. Store in a covered jar. Add: 2
Tbls. sirup to 1 glass
of ice water or carbonated water 2. Add: 1
Tbls. syrup 2 Tbls.
orange, apricot or pineapple juice to 1
glass of ice water or
carbonated water From: THE JOY OF
COOKING, by the
Rombauers
Lucky Driver
Use only fresh squeezed juice for best
result!
1 cl (0.33 oz) Coconut liquor (or
coconut concentrate)
2 cl (0.67 oz) Lemon juice
5 cl (1.69 oz) Pineapple juice
5 cl (1.69 oz) Grapefruit juice
5 cl (1.69 oz) Orange juice
15 cl (5 oz) Sugar Syrup
Prepare in a blender or shaker, serve in
a long drink glass with 2-3
ice cubes. Garnish with one orange
slice, and one lemon slice.
Mint Julep
8 medium-size mint leaves (small
terminal leaves are tastiest)
1.5 Tbsp sugar syrup
(1C sugar + .5 C water, warm and
stir 'til dissolved)
1.5 oz Bourbon whiskey (I like
8-year-old Evan Williams)
dash (1/4 tsp) of Angostura bitters
In electric blender, blend on high for a
few seconds,
until leaves are reduced
Strain into silver tumbler packed with
shaved ice; add more Bourbon
to saturate the ice; garnish with a
sprig of mint.
Non-Alcoholic Generic Cocktail
1 part Grenadine
4 parts Orange Juice
4 Parts Pineapple juice
The proportions are approximate, vary
according to taste. Mix
together, serve with lots of ice.
Orangatang
1 cup orange juice
1 cup cranberry
Place all ingredients in the blender jar -
cover and whiz on medium
speed until well blended. Pour in one
tall, 2 medium or 3 small glasses
and drink up.
Orange Cocktail
Stir 2 cl (0.67 oz) Lemon juice and 6 cl (2
oz) Orange juice in a
mixing glass, strain into a large cocktail
glass.
Orange Cooler
Put several ice cubes in a large tumbler,
add 2 tea spoon Sugar syrup,
9 cl (3 oz) Orange juice, top up with
Ginger Ale. Stir.
Orange Flip
10 cl (3.38 oz) Orange juice
1 egg yolk
1 table spoon honey
Mix in a blender.
Orange Smile
Shake well 1 egg, 2 tea spoon Grenadine
Syrup, 10 cl (3.38 oz) Orange
juice, and several ice cubes. Strain into
a small tumbler, serve with
a drinking straw.
Orange Squash
Put one ice cube in a large tumbler, add
3 cl (1 oz) Lemon juice and
10 cl Orange juice. Stir well. Serve
sugar and cold water on the
side, so the guest can modify the taste,
and a drinking straw and a
spoon.
Orange Velvet
Shake 2 cl (0.67 oz) Cream, 2 cl (0.67 oz)
Pineapple juice, 5 cl (1.69
oz) Orange juice with some ice. Strain
into a large cocktail glass.
Orangeade
Place some ice cubes in a large tumbler
or long drink glass, add 5 cl
(1.69 oz) Lemon juice, 15 cl (1.69 oz)
Orange juice, 2-3 cl (1 oz)
Sugar syrup, and stir well. Top up with
cold Soda Water, serve with a
drinking straw.
Orgeat Lemonade
Mix 3 cl (1 oz) Lemon juice and 5 cl (1.69
oz) Orgeat Syrup (Almond
milk syrup) in a tumbler with 2-3 small
ice cubes. Fill up with Soda
Water and stir.
Oyster Cocktail
Fill a flat champagne glass with crushed
or shaved ice, to chill the
glass well. Mix the following in a mix
glass: 1 table spoon tomato
ketchup, 1 table spoon Mayonnaise, a
few drops Lemon juice, a little
salt and pepper, and 4-5 cl (1.69 oz)
cream. Stir well and check the
taste. Throw away ice from glass, fill
half of the cocktail mix in
the glass, add 3-4 oysters (without
shells) and their water. Fill up
with the rest of the cocktail mix, garnish
with a Cherry, serve with a
small spoon and fork. (This one is
supposed to cure a hangover.)
Parisette
One tea spoon Grenadine Syrup over
some ice cubes in a large tumbler.
Stir. Fill up with cold milk. Stir again,
serve with a drinking
straw.
Pineapple Lemonade
Mix 5 cl (1.69 oz) Orange juice, 15 cl
(1.69 oz) Pineapple juice, 3 cl
(1 oz) Sugar syrup in a large tumbler
with several ice cubes. Stir
well and top up with cold Soda Water.
Serve with a drinking straw.
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Pineapple Lemonade #2
5 cl (1.69 oz) Orange juice
15 cl (1.69 oz) Pineapple juice
3 cl (1 oz) Sugar syrup
several ice cubes
Soda Water
Mix 5 cl (1.69 oz) Orange juice, 15 cl (1.69
oz) Pineapple juice, 3 cl
(1 oz) Sugar syrup in a large tumbler with
several ice cubes. Stir
well and top up with cold Soda Water.
Serve with a drinking straw.
Pineapple Power
1 small can pineapple slices with
juice
2 cups water
1 tblsp honey
1/4 tsp ginger
Place all ingredients in the blender jar -
cover and whiz on medium
speed until well blended. Pour in one
tall, 2 medium or 3 small glasses
and drink up.
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