Cocktail recipes! Summer is approaching, which means it's cocktail season, so I'm going to post up some recipes I have copied out to another forum listing some classics and some ones you may not have tried, all with reasonably simple recipes. Any requests, then leave a comment and i'll give it some thought :)
Dry Martini:
50ml Gin
10ml Dry Vermouth
(there is a variation with 2:1 (so single vermouth, double gin) that you may want to try) - the gin can be changed with vodka for a vodka martini.
Shake or stir in a mixing glass over ice, then strain into a martini glass, serve with olive on a stick (cliche and annoying imo) or a twist of lemon.
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Vesper Martini (Mr Bond's favourite!)
60ml gin
20ml vodka
10ml Lillet Blanc (kina lillet)
shake over ice and serve with a lemon twist
(the ratio is the important thing here, so 3 gin, 1 vodka, half lillet in any quantity will provide a good vesper martini)
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Classic Mojito
50ml White Rum (eg. bacardi, havana club)
10-20ml lime juice, depending upon taste,
plenty of mint leaves,
2 bar spoons of fine sugar ( i like to use brown sugar - a good teaspoon will be fine) - gomme syrup can be used, but not exactly something we all have.
Muddle these ingredients together in a glass
add ice, a lime wedge and top up with soda, garnish with a mint sprig.
(I like to add a little bitters to a mojito, but this is personal taste)
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Manhattan
50ml bourbon
20ml Sweet vermouth
dash of bitters (optional)
Stir in a mixing glass with ice, then strain into a cocktail glass, serve with cherry.
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Margarita
50ml Tequila
20ml Lime Juice
15ml Triple Sec (eg. cointreau)
Shake over ice and strain into cocktail glass - tip if salt-rimming the glass, try only doing half, so people who don't like it don't have to drink from it - to salt rim rub the outside of the glass with a lime wedge, and then roll in ground salt.
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Woo Woo
50ml vodka
15ml peach schnapps
70ml Cranberry Juice
Build in this order in an ice filled highball glass.
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Cuba Libre
50ml White Rum
Squeeze of lime
add to a tall glass with ice, top with cola (yes this is a posh way of saying rum and coke, but if it's worth doing........)
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Long Island Iced Tea
25ml Vodka
25ml Gin
25ml Light Rum
25ml Silver Tequila
25ml triple sec
25ml fresh lemon juice
20ml sugar syrup
Shake over ice, strain into a collins glass (12oz e.g half pint) add ice and top off with cola, garnish with a lemon wedge
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Whiskey Sour
30ml Lemon Juice
1/2 tsp Sugar
50ml Bourbon
50ml orange juice (optional)
Shake over ice and strain into a sour glass with a lemon wedge to garnish
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Black Russian
50ml Vodka
20ml Kahlua
serve over ice.
(for a white Russian, float cream on top
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Screwdriver
50ml vodka
add to a highball glass, fill with ice and orange juice, twist of orange.
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Bloody Mary
50ml vodka
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
sprinkle salt, pepper, celery salt
Add tomato juice and ice.
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Cosmopolitan
50ml Vodka (a citrus vodka would work well here e.g stoli lemon,)
25ml triple sec
15ml fresh lime juice
Dash of cranberry juice to colour.
shake over ice and strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a lime wedge.
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Sex on the beach
50ml Vodka
30ml peach schnapps
add to a highball glass with ice, top off with cranberry and grapefruit juice.
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Tatanka
50ml Zubrowka
add to an old fashioned glass (a whisky type glass is fine) with ice
top with apple juice, and add a pinch of cinnamon (optional) and garnish with a lemon wedge.
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Moscow Mule
50ml vodka (42 below manuka honey is GREAT for this)
15ml Lime juice
add to a highball glass with plenty of ice, top up with ginger beer/ale and garnish with a lime wedge
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Classic Pimms' & Lemonade
10ml Pimms' No1 Cup (there is a vodka pimms, the no6 cup, which of course lacks the flavours of the gin from the no1, but is harder to come by, the no1 is the most common.)
100ml Lemonade
(the 10/1 ratio is the classic ratio)
Then comes the important part. The rest of the drink is fruit and other flavours, which make the drink what it is. Common ones include the main citrus fruits (lemon lime orange), apple, mint, strawberries and others too. My recommendation is the three citrus, a halved strawberry on the stirrer, and importantly, Borage. Hard to come by, and cucumber is commonly substituted in instead, but borage is traditional and imo, better :)
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Daquiri
This will be a classic daquiri base, to which you can add any fruit purée you like (within reason), and go wild really!
5 ml grenadine,
10ml lemon juice
20ml white rum.
add your fruit purée, and mix with crushed ice, and serve in a martini glass.
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Tequila sunrise
50ml tequila,
15ml Grenadine,
orange Juice
Put the tequila in a chilled glass with a little ice (though the effect is easier with no ice), top off almost completely with orange juice, then gently pour the grenadine on top. It'll gently sink to the bottom = sunrise. :)
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Sea Breeze
50ml Vodka
75ml Cranberry juice
75ml Grapefruit juice
1 Lime wedge
5 Ice (crushed)
simple stuff. Pour, stir, garnish with the wedge. job done.
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Harvey Wallbanger
25ml Vodka
2 teaspoons Galliano
100ml Orange juice
6 Ice cubes
1 Orange slice
put half the cubes into a shaker with the vodka and orange and shake well, put the remaining ice in the glass and strain the mix over the top. Float the galliano, and decorate with the orange slice.
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Champagne/sparkling wine cocktails.
Basic similarities is that you put about 15ml into the bottom of a flute, and top up with champagne or prosecco. Differences/exceptions are detailed in the recipe.
Bellini - white peach purée,
Black velvet - Half stout, half champagne, layered. (in flutes for the ladies, in pint glasses for the men)
Mimosa - 2xOrange juice, and a dash of orange curacao if you like/have. (also known as bucks fizz)
Nelsons' Blood - tawny port
Kir Royale - Creme de cassis
oscar wilde - brown sugar cube, soak in absinthe, set alight and place in the glass, then top off with the wine.
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