Ginger Cocktails

• Boomerang
• Ginger Cosmopolitan
• Heavenly Ginger
• Moonlight

Boomerang

The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur

Makes 1

Ingredients
0.50-oz banana liqueur
1.00-oz The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur
3.00-oz club soda


Preparation
Into a tall tapering straight-sided wine glass with large ice cubes, pour the liqueurs. Add the club soda and serve.

Source: World Ltd, Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur: Superb cocktail and cooking recipes (Philadelphia), 5

Ginger Cosmopolitan

American Cocktails
Makes 1

Ingredients
1.50-oz Ketel One Citroen
1.50-oz Domaine de Canton Ginger Liqueur
0.75-oz Cointreau
0.75-oz fresh lime juice


Preparation
In an iced mixing glass, pour all ingredients. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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Heavenly Ginger

The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur

Makes 1

Ingredients
1.00-oz The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur
1.00-oz Devonshire Cream Liqueur
Ice

Garnish:
Sliced star fruit (carambola)


Preparation
Combine liqueurs in a blender container; add ice and blend at High speed. Strain into a champagne flute. Garnish with the star fruit and serve with a straw.

Source: World Ltd, The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur: Superb cocktail and cooking recipes (Philadelphia), 6

Moonlight

The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur

Makes 1

Ingredients
1.00-oz The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur
1.00-oz dark Crème de Cacao
1.00-oz heavy cream
Ice


Preparation
In a blender container, combine all ingredients; process until smooth. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Source: World Ltd, The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur: Superb cocktail and cooking recipes (Philadelphia), 6

Margarita: Punch Recipes

Some of these Margarita Punch recipes may be made with or without alcohol. This post contains the following recipes:

• Cranberry-Lime Margarita Punch - N/A
• Mock Margaritas - N/A

Make this Cranberry-Lime Margarita Punch without or with alcohol.

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Cranberry-Lime Margarita Punch - N/A

Equal®

Makes 10 servings

Ingredients
6 cups ice cold water (refrigerate for at least 4 hours in advance)
1 (12-oz) container frozen cranberry juice cocktail, thawed
1/2 cup fresh lime juice
6 packets (1/4 cup) Equal® Spoonful or Granulated
2 cups ice cubes
8-oz (1 cup) chilled diet ginger ale

Garnish:
1 lime, sliced for the punch bowl
20 fresh cranberries
10 lime twists


Preparation
In a punch bowl. combine cold water, cranberry juice, lime juice and Equal®; stir until Equal® dissolves.

Gently stir in ice cubes, diet ginger ale and sliced lime.

Skewer the cranberries and lime twists as shown; garnish each glass and serve.


Variation(s):
Club Soda — Use 8-oz (1 cup) club soda instead of ginger ale and increase Equal® to 10 packets (1/3 cup).

Tequila — Use 8-oz (1 cup) tequila instead of the ginger ale.

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Make these "Mock Margarita" slush drinks without or with alcohol. 

Mock Margaritas - N/A

Makes 3-QTS

Ingredients
1 (12-oz) can frozen lemonade, thawed and undiluted

1 (12-oz) can frozen limeade, thawed and undiluted

1 cup powdered sugar

6 cups crushed ice

For serving:

1-liter club soda, chilled

Garnish:

Lime wedges to coat the glasses

Coarse salt to rim the glasses

Preparation

At least 3 hours before serving: Process half of the first 4 ingredients in a blender until smooth; pour into a 4-QT plastic container.  Repeat procedure with remaining half of ingredients. Freeze until firm.

30 minutes before serving:  Add club soda, stirring until slushy. Rub rims of stemmed glasses with lime wedges and then dip in saucer of salt. Serve cold.

Variation(s):

Tequila — Before freezing, stir 8-oz (1 cup) tequila into mixture. Add the club soda only if desired.

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Last Updated June 21, 2015

Ritz Cocktail | Dale Degroff

This cocktail, created by bartending legend Dale Degroff, has an elegant, old-school appeal.

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Ritz Cocktail

Makes 1

Ingredients
1-oz cognac
1/2-oz maraschino liqueur (such as Luxardo)
1/2-oz Cointreau
1/4-oz lemon juice
Sparkling wine

Garnish:
1 flamed orange twist

Notes: To garnish this drink with Degroff's signature flamed orange twist, cut a disk of orange peel a little bigger than a half-dollar coin. Light a wooden match, and hold it between the drink and the peel. Squeeze the peel so that its oils pass through the flame before landing on the surface of the cocktail.

Preparation
In a cocktail shaker, shake ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and top with sparkling wine.

Garnish with a flamed orange twist, if desired.

The Mint Julep & other Kentucky drinks

This post has recipes / links for these drinks:

• The Mint Julep, JL Louisville
• Bourbon and Champagne Cocktail, Woodford Reserve
• Evil Twin Martini, The Oakroom, Louisville
• Seelbach Cocktail, Seelbach Hotel

The Mint Julep recipe is from the Junior League of Louisville, Inc. 

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The Mint Julep

Ingredients
For julep mix:
Water
Fresh mint leaves (preferably small and tender, according to David Wondrich)
Bourbon

For each serving:
5-inch silver mint julep cup (the metal retains cold temperature, keeping crushed ice from melting too fast)
Shaved ice
Straw, cut 1/2-inch above the top of the cup/glass (see Notes)
Powdered sugar
Mint sprig


Notes:  Julep straws are thinner than normal to assure the proper blending of ingredients (and brings you closer to the mint).

Preparation

Make a simple syrup by boiling together 2-parts sugar to 1-part water for 5 minutes.

Make a Bourbon-Mint Extract by piling mint leaves in a clean white handkerchief, gathering ends around mint, and dipping the leaf end in a small bowl of 3.0- to 4.0-ozs of bourbon and twisting hard.

Make Bourbon-Mint Syrup by mixing extract with simple syrup until the first 'ping' of bitterness is reached (from mint not bourbon).

For Julep Mix, combine 1-part bourbon-mint syrup with 6.5-parts bourbon; chill well. Store julep mix in glass bottles in refrigerator ('keeps forever').

Pack julep cup with shaved ice and pour in 2.5- to 3.0-ozs of chilled julep mix. Add straw, powdered sugar and mint sprig. Serve with a napkin or small linen doily.

Source: Junior League of Louisville, Inc, Cordon Blue Grass Blue Ribbon Recipes from Kentucky (Memphis: Wimmer Brothers, 1988), 27.

The Bourbon and Champagne Cocktail recipe is from Woodford Reserve.

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Bourbon and Champagne Cocktail

Makes 1

Ingredients
1.0-oz Woodford Reserve Kentucky Bourbon

0.5-oz Vanilla Syrup

4.0-oz Champagne

Garnish:

1/2 vanilla bean

Preparation

Mix the bourbon and syrup in a Champagne flute. Top with Champagne, and garnish with a vanilla bean.

Source: The Woodford Reserve Culinary Cocktail Tour: a Journey with Bourbon, Compiled by Peggy Stevens and Ronni Lundy (Louisville: Brown-Forman Corporation, 2005).

The Evil Twin Martini recipe is from The Oakroom, Louisville. 

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Evil Twin Martini

Makes 1

Ingredients
0.5-oz vodka
0.5-oz white chocolate liqueur
0.5-oz dark chocolate liqueur
0.5-oz raspberry liqueur

Garnish:
Raspberry

Preparation

Place liquid ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to blend and chill. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh raspberry.

Source: The Oakroom, Louisville via Food & Wine Cocktails 2010: : The Ultimate Source for 160-Plus Terrific Cocktail & Party-Food Recipes from the World's Biggest Talents. (American Express Publishing Corporation, 2010).

Named after the Louisville, Kentucky hotel where it was first crafted in 1917, the Seelbach Cocktail is a classic mix of bourbon, Cointreau and both Angostura and Peychaud’s bitters. ~Imbibe Magazine

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Seelbach Cocktail

Makes 1

Ingredients
1.0-oz Bourbon

0.5-oz Cointreau

7 dashes of Angostura Bitters

7 dashes Peychaud's Bitters

5.0-oz Champagne or Sparkling Wine

Garnish:

Lemon or orange twist

Tools:

Bar spoon

Champagne flute

Julep strainer

Knife

Mixing glass

Preparation

Combine bourbon, Cointreau, and bitters in a mixing glass; add ice, and stir. Strain into chilled champagne flute. 

Top with Champagne or sparkling wine. Garnish with lemon or orange twist.

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Source: Imbibe Magazine

Last Updated December 16, 2012