Sunday, November 8, 2009

Cocktails top 5

Not that I want to encourage anybody to drink alcohol... but in case you do it anyway, here's some ideas.

5. Gin and Tonic
Ingredients:
Gin
Tonic Water
Lime
Quantities for one drink:
2 oz Gin
5 oz Tonic Water
1 Lime Wedge
Blending Instructions:
Pour the gin and the tonic water into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes
Stir well
Garnish with the lime wedge

4. Tom Collins
Ingredients:
Gin
Lemon Juice
Sugar
Club Soda
Maraschino Cherry
Orange
Quantities for one drink:
2 oz Gin
1 oz Lemon Juice
1 tsp Superfine Sugar
3 oz Club Soda
1 Maraschino Cherry
1 Orange Slice
Blending Instructions:
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, lemon juice, and sugar
Shake well
Strain into a collins glass alomst filled with ice cubes
Add the club soda
Stir and garnish with the cherry and the orange slice

3. Cuba Libre
Ingredients:
Light Rum
Lime
Coca-Cola
Quantities for one drink:
2 oz Light Rum
Juice of 1/2 Lime
Coca-Cola
Blending Instructions:
Pour lime juice into a highball glass over ice cubes
Add rum, fill with cola, stir, and serve

2. Caipirinha
Ingredients:
Sugar
Lime
Cachaca
Quantities for one drink:
2 tsp Granulated Sugar
1 Lime (8 Wedges)
2 1/2 oz Cachaca
Blending Instructions:
Muddle the sugar into the lime wedges in an old-fashioned glass
Fill the glass with ice cubes
Pour the cachaca into the glass
Stir well

1. Mojito
Ingredients:
Light Rum
Lime
Sugar
Mint
Soda Water
Quantities for one drink:
2-3 oz Light Rum
Juice of 1 Lime (1 oz)
2 tsp Sugar
2-4 Mint Sprigs
Soda Water
Blending Instructions:
Lightly muddle the mint and sugar with a splash of soda water in a mixing glass until the sugar dissolve and you smell the mint
Squeeze the lime into the glass, add rum and shake with ice
Strain over cracked ice in a highball glass
Top with soda water, garnish with mint sprig and serve

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