| Tropical
pleasures and trendy treats
What's hip
to sip? Here are recipes for popular tropical pleasures and trendy
treats. We've also got recipes for seven classic
cocktails and four tasty nonalcoholic mocktails.
Tropical
pleasures
- Frozen daiquiri
- Mai tai
- Frozen margarita
- Planter's punch
- Kamikaze
- Sangria
Trendy
treats
- Lemon vodka gimlet
- Champagne cocktail
- Metropolitan
- Sazerac
- Negroni
- Lemon drop
- Melon ball
Frozen
daiquiri
- 2 ounces light rum
- 1 1/2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1/2 ounce Rose's lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon superfine sugar
- 1 cup crushed ice
Put all ingredients in a blender and
frapp‚ until the mixture has the consistency of slush. Serve
immediately in a margarita glass, with a short straw.
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Mai
tai
- 2 ounces dark rum
- 1/2 ounce cura‡ao
- 1/2 ounce apricot brandy
- 1 1/2 tablespoons lime juice
- 3 or 4 ice cubes
- Pineapple spear
Combine all ingredients, except the
pineapple, in a cocktail shaker and shake well. Strain into a
cocktail glass and garnish with the pineapple.
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Frozen
margarita
- 1 jigger (1 1/2 ounces)
tequila
- 1 jigger (1 1/2 ounces) fresh
lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon superfine
granulated sugar
- 1 pony (1 ounce) triple sec or
Cointreau
- 5 ice cubes
Rub the rim of a margarita glass
with a lime wedge and dip it in a bowl of salt to lightly coat it.
Chill the glass. In a blender, frapp‚ the ingredients, including
the ice cubes, for 30 seconds. Pour into the glass.
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Planter's
punch
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 teaspoons superfine sugar
- Finely crushed ice
- 2 to 3 ounces rum
- 2 dashes angostura bitters
- 2 ounces club soda
- Slice orange
- Slice lemon
- Pineapple spear
- Maraschino cherry
Muddle the lime juice and sugar in a
small glass until the sugar is dissolved. Fill a Collins glass
with crushed iced to the _ mark and stir until glass is frosted.
Add lime juice, rum, bitters and club soda and stir to mix.
Garnish with fruit.
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Kamikaze
- 1 1/2 ounces vodka
- 1 ounce Cointreau
- 1 ounce lime juice
Stir all the ingredients in a shaker
half-filled with ice; strain into a highball glass filled with
ice. Garnish with a lime twist.
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Sangria
This refreshing summer punch
recipe makes about 20 servings.
- 2 bottles chilled dry red wine
- 1 cup cognac
- 1/2 cup triple sec
- 1/3 cup superfine granulated
sugar, or to taste
- 1 orange, sliced thin
- 1 lemon, sliced thin
- 2 cups chilled seltzer or club
soda
In a large bowl, combine wine,
cognac, triple sec and sugar, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
Add the orange and lemon slices and chill for at least one hour
(can be prepared a day ahead). Transfer to a punch bowl, stir in
seltzer and add a block of ice or ice cubes.
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Lemon
vodka gimlet
- 1 jigger (1 1/2 ounces)
lemon-flavored vodka
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon Rose's lime juice
- Lime twist
Mix together vodka, fresh lime juice
and Rose's lime juice in an old-fashioned glass. Fill the glass
with ice cubes and garnish with a twist of lime.
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Champagne
cocktail
- 6 ounces chilled champagne
- 1 cube sugar
- Angostura bitters
Soak the sugar cube with the
angostura bitters. Place it in the bottom of a champagne flute and
fill with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Metropolitan
- 1 1/2 ounces gin
- 1 1/2 ounces chilled cranberry
juice
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- Lemon twist
Combine all ingredients in a
cocktail shaker half-filled with ice and shake well. Strain into a
chilled, stemmed cocktail glass and garnish with a twist of lemon.
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Sazerac
- 1 dash Pernod
- 1 dash Peychaud bitters
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 ounces rye whiskey
Coat a chilled old-fashioned glass
with Pernod, pouring out any that remains. Muddle sugar and
bitters until sugar is dissolved. Add whiskey and serve with a
swizzle stick. This drink is traditionally served without ice.
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Negroni
- 1 1/2 ounces gin
- 1 1/2 ounces sweet vermouth
- 1 1/2 ounces Campari
- Orange slice
Combine all ingredients in a shaker
half-filled with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish
with an orange slice.
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Lemon
drop
- 1 1/2 ounces lemon vodka
- 3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Lemon slice
Add ingredients to a shaker
half-filled with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a
lemon slice.
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Melon
ball
- 3/4 ounce Midori
- 3/4 ounce vodka
- 4 ounces orange juice
- Maraschino cherry
Stir Midori, vodka and orange juice
with ice. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish
with a cherry. |
