Four Cocktails

[teaberryblue]

Yeah, so…I already told you all about the mishaps with my camera, but it means I now have four pictures of four different drinks to share with you!

1) Rhubarb Capirinha

Ingredients for 2 cocktails
6 oz cachaça
2 oz rhubarb syrup*
1 stalk rhubarb
1 Tb sugar
1 lime
Ice

Instructions
Fill 2 rocks glasses with ice
Cut rhubarb into 2 4-5″ pieces
Roll rhubarb in sugar and set aside
Cut lime into eighths and put in pitcher.
Add rhubarb syrup and muddle.
Add cachaca
Pour contents of pitcher over ice, including lime pieces
Add 1 piece rhubarb to each drink.

2) Spruce Juice

Ingredients for 2 cocktails
6 oz Rogue Spruce Gin
6 strawberries
2 oz Acacia Honey
1 small Kirby cucumber, trimmed but not peeled, or about 4″ of another larger cucumber
1/4 oz Absinthe or Pernod

Instructions
Put ice in two martini glasses to chill
Set aside 2 slices of cucumber and 2 strawberries
Cut remaining cucumber and strawberries to a 1/2″ dice
Put honey, cucumber, and strawberries in shaker and muddle
Add ice to shaker
Add gin to shaker, shake
Remove ice from glasses
Coat each glass with Pernod, pour out excess
Pour contents of shaker into glasses, garnish with strawberry and cucumber

3) French Mojito

Ingredients for 2 cocktails
6 oz white/silver rum
1 Meyer Lemon
1 oz lavender syrup
1 cup fresh mint sprigs, plus 4 sprigs
Club Soda

Instructions
Put ice in two highball or rocks glasses to chill
Cut lemon in eighths, put in pitcher
Roughly crush mint and add to pitcher
Add lavender syrup
Muddle contents of pitcher
Add rum and stir
Remove ice from glasses
Add mixture to glasses, including lemon pieces
Top off with soda
Add mint to garnish

4) Rhubarb Manhattan

Ingredients for 2 cocktails
6 oz bourbon
2 oz sweet vermouth
2 oz rhubarb syrup
4 dashes Fee Brothers’ Rhubarb Bitters
2 4-5″ pieces of rhubarb

Instructions
Add ice to martini glasses to chill
Put ice in shaker
Add all ingredients but rhubarb to shaker and shake
Remove ice from glasses and pour
Add rhubarb to garnish

*We have a lot of rhubarb growing in the garden, so I made a lot of rhubarb syrup.

Ingredients
2 stalks rhubarb
1 cup sugar
3/4 cups water

Instructions
Chop rhubarb into 1/2″ pieces
Boil water with sugar in a small saucepan until sugar is dissolved
Add rhubarb and turn to medium heat
Cook, stirring intermittently, until rhubarb has softened and “melted” and consistency is syrupy
Pass through strainer to remove stringy bits

Enjoy, everybody!

Mirrored from Antagonia.net.

Comments

[trouserminnow.livejournal.com]

i actually repped you for the rhubarb usage yesterday (maybe it was saturday, i dunno---"i wake up tomorrow today, just help me find my head...")

but can we call that drink up above anything but a mojito? it looks like you made something altogether tasty, and i consider "mojito" a cussword.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Aha sweet! I am totally loving the rhubarb syrup-- I actually ate it on pancakes last week after I made the capirinhas. There are going to be rhubarb drinks all summer since we have a ton of it growing!

And you can call it whatever you want :-P I was kind of going for the "Make a Mojito-style drink with a French-inspired flavor profile" angle here! I think mojitos are one of those drinks that have kind of gotten overpopularized to death, but I've got nothing against them personally. But I tend to make mine with brown sugar, cane juice, and half-mint, half-cilantro.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH, finally a use for my rhubarb bitters!!! And what a perfect coincidence, as my family has a farm where we suffer from an overabundance of rhubarb, just going to waste! How long will the syrup last in the fridge?

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I am not sure, because I've only made small batches at a time. But I would guess from previous uses with fruit-flavored sugar syrups that they'll last at least a couple weeks.

[docbrite.livejournal.com]

Chris uses this stuff in a cocktail at the Green Goddess. Thought you might be interested if you aren't familiar with it already. It's pricey, but a little goes a long way.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Oooh I didn't see that last time I was there! I just remember the Eau De Vie of Douglas Fir.

Now I am wondering if I could make my own. Hmmmmm. Hmmm...

[pachakuti.livejournal.com]

A caipirinha is my new absolute favorite drink (well, new-ish, it's been my 'new favorite drink' for a few months now, really) and I absolutely love the way they taste... The idea of mixing that with rhubarb is genius. I must do this. I must get money enough to buy the liquor required to do this! What a fantastic idea for a drink.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Hint: Cachaça is very similar to light rum; if it's pricey around you, you can make capirinhas with light rum and pretty closely approximate it!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes, sorry! I...I posted links with Paypal buttons somewhere back in my LJ if you scroll back!