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New Year's Eve cocktails
LewieP's Mummy
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Me and Lewie's daddy have been invited to stay with our best friends for New Years Eve in a cottage in the Cotswolds. Yay, good times. The deal is, they will pay for the cottage, I will cook dinner on New Year's Eve.
That's no problem, I've already got a menu planned (smoked salmon mousse starter, filet mignon main with roasties, and cointreau icecream with a dark chocolate sauce for pudding. I've also got the wines and champagne.
What I really need are a couple of recipes for fantastic cocktails - the only ones I can make are Sea Breeze, Mojitos and martinis. We have Sea Breezes every year at our joint pre-Whitley Bay Christmas tea (both couples families, 5 kids, 2 grannies) cos we like our traditions, but I'd like something new that will be yummy and a good surprise.
Help, please H&A!
That's no problem, I've already got a menu planned (smoked salmon mousse starter, filet mignon main with roasties, and cointreau icecream with a dark chocolate sauce for pudding. I've also got the wines and champagne.
What I really need are a couple of recipes for fantastic cocktails - the only ones I can make are Sea Breeze, Mojitos and martinis. We have Sea Breezes every year at our joint pre-Whitley Bay Christmas tea (both couples families, 5 kids, 2 grannies) cos we like our traditions, but I'd like something new that will be yummy and a good surprise.
Help, please H&A!
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I also am a fan of Sloe Gin Fizz: http://www.esquire.com/drinks/sloe-gin-fizz-drink-recipe
The making of it is a event in itself as you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fibu-0dpM
You can make it from scratch, or at least over here you can buy it and just heat it in a pot.
Martinis with a spring of mint, or pepermint sugar?
Hot Brandy Toddy:
1 cube sugar
boiling water
2oz brandy
Put cube in a cup, fill 2/3 water, add brandy. Stir gently, top with lemon slice and fresh nutmeg.
Don't make the mistake of confusing punch with frat-party jungle juice. Good punch is delicious, potent, and super easy to prepare in large quantities, so you're not busy mixing drinks all night.
That'd fuck everyone up real nice
You could also try mulling some hard cider. There's nothing as warming as a glass of mulled cider and nothing as synonymous with auld lang syne as hard cider.
Are you looking for sweeter cocktails or more boozy ones?
It's typically a post equinox drink and has been a Holiday staple in my family for generations.
2 jiggers apple brandy (or Laird's Apple Jack)
1 jigger lemon juice
1/2 jigger grenadine
I don't know how prevalent Apple Brandy is in the UK, but if it's available, definitely give it a try.
Applejack is pretty distinctive. It's distilled through freezing and removing the ice, so the apple flavour is much stronger (I'm honestly unsure how Calvados retains its flavour through distillation) and it has a bit of a kick from the fermentation byproducts. For example, switching the calvados in a Widow's Kiss produces a drink that I have seen termed "Widow's Kick." More importantly, it wouldn't be a "Jack" anymore. Of course, applejack is an American invention, so you might have to make do.
A general piece of advice I've heard is that the subtlety and smoothness of calvados makes it perfect for drinking on its own, although other apple brandies might not be made with as much care. It might actually be fun trying to mull on its own. Meanwhile, applejack has such a strong flavour that it's best in cocktails, as it is very difficult to overwhelm. Both are a popular addition to mulled cider (soft cider, as you're British).
I personally think that mulled hard cider sounds better, but nobody's getting drunk on that. Apperantly, colonial Americans gave the stuff to infants.
Also, given the popularity of hard pear cider on this forum, you might want to try this or something like it.
We all love mulled wine, have it on Guy Fawkes night every year, with the same family
Tools - I'll be taking grater/zester, corkscrew, glasses (martini, champagne, red and white wine and liquer - you never know what the cottage may not have) cocktail shaker, very pretty glass stirrers with snowflakes on them, paring knife
ingredients - I already have whisky, white rum, gin, vodka, cointreau, triple sec, tia maria, baileys. I can buy whatever I need that I don't have.
I like sharp, citrus-y drinks, my best friend likes sweet drinks. The blokes will drink whatever I give them, cos they're well brought up! I don't want to get us drunk - we'll be having white wine with the starter, red with the main, and a dessert wine with dessert - I have a choice of a Muscat de Rivesaltes, a chocolate wine and a Christmas pudding wine! And champagne at midnight, either Bolly or Roederer, so the cocktails don't need to be strong!
More ideas, please!
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You might want something kind of heavy at some point. In that case, a Boston Sour could be useful (Whiskey Sour plus egg white). If you really want to impress them, you could try brewing up posset and serve it for dessert.
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