Leap Year
From the Wall Street Journal
2 oz. gin
½ oz. sweet vermouth
½ oz. Grand Marnier
1 dash fresh lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into a stemmed cocktail glass. A twist of lemon peel on top.
Makes 1.
Cocktails
Leap Year
Leap Year
From the Wall Street Journal
2 oz. gin
½ oz. sweet vermouth
½ oz. Grand Marnier
1 dash fresh lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into a stemmed cocktail glass. A twist of lemon peel on top.
Makes 1.
Vanilla Rum Colas
Vanilla Rum Colas
From Martha Stewart
Small ice cubes
3 cups cola
1 cup plus 2 tbsp. dark rum
3/4 tsp. pure vanilla extract
6 orange wedges or 4 sliced kumquats
- For each drink, fill a glass 3/4 full with ice.
- Add 1/2 cup cola, 3 tbsp. rum, and 1/8 tsp. vanilla. Squeeze orange or kumquats into drink, and stir.
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Greyhound
Greyhound
From Epicurious
2 ounces vodka
5 ounces grapefruit juice
In a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes, combine the vodka and grapefruit juice. Stir well.
Makes 1 cocktail.
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Spiked Pink Lemonade
Spiked Pink Lemonade
From Everyday With Rachael Ray magazine
1 bottle (750 ml) vodka or gin
5 cups lemonade
2 cups cranberry juice
3 cups ginger ale
Combine all the ingredients in a big pitcher, stir and serve!
Serves 6-8.
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Brownie Cognac
Brownie Cognac
From Fine Living
1 1/2 oz. Courvoisier or other type of cognac
1 oz. amaretto
Dash of chocolate syrup
- Fill pint glass with ice.
- Add the cognac, the amaretto, and a dash of chocolate syrup.
- Shake and pour into a chilled martini glass.
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Lychee Martini
Lychee Martini
From InStyle magazine
1 14 oz. can lychees
2 cups vodka
1/2 cup cranberry juice
- Drain the lychees, reserving 1 cup of the lychee syrup.
- In a large pitcher combine the reserved lychee syrup, the vodka, and the cranberry juice. Refrigerate until very cold.
- Fill cocktail glasses with ice water.
- To serve, empty ice water from glasses. Place one lychee in the bottom of each glass, and fill with a cocktail.
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Pom Lime Vodka Cocktail
- Combine sugar and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 2 minutes or just until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat; cool.
- Combine sugar syrup*, club soda, pomegranate juice, vodka, and lime juice.
- Place ice in a martini shaker; add about 3/4 cup pomegranate mixture. Cover and shake. Strain into a glass.
- Garnish with lime slice, if desired. Repeat procedure with remaining pomegranate mixture.
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Boston Punch
Boston Punch
From Virtual Cities
2 cups apple cider
1 cup brandy
1/2 cup dark rum
1/2 cup curacao
Juice of 2 lemons
One 750-ml bottle of champagne
1 liter seltzer or club soda
1 teaspoon sugar
- Chill cider, brandy, rum, curacao, lemon juice, champagne, and seltzer or club soda.
- Combine cider, brandy, rum, curacao, and lemon juice with sugar, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Just before serving, pour over a block of ice in a punch bowl and stir in champagne and seltzer.
Long Island Iced Tea
Long Island Iced Tea
From Taste
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
3 cups ice cubes
1/3 cup chilled vodka
1/3 cup tequila
1/3 cup white rum
1/3 cup gin
1/4 cup Cointreau liqueur
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup chilled cola
- Place the sugar and water in a small saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Cook, without stirring, for 3 minutes or until syrup thickens. Remove from heat and set aside for 15 minutes to cool.
- Divide the ice evenly among serving glasses.
- Pour over the vodka, tequila, rum, gin, Cointreau, sugar syrup, lemon juice and cola. Serve immediately.
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Hot Buttered Rum
- Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat.
- Whisk in brown sugar and confectioners sugar.
- Remove from heat, and whisk in the ice cream, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Pour mixture into a plastic container, seal, and freeze.
- To make a drink: in a coffee mug, measure 1 heaping tablespoon hot buttered rum batter. Add the rum, then fill cup with boiling water. Stir, and sprinkle top of drink with nutmeg, if desired.
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