#drink recipes

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Palo Santo !

2 oz. Buffalo Trace Bourbon 

0.25 oz. palo santo-smoked cinnamon syrup*

0.125 oz. St. Elizabeth Allspice Liqueur

2-3 dashes chocolate bitters

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir for 10 to 25 seconds (shorter for small ice, longer for big ice). Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice and garnish with an orange peel.

*Recipe for the smoked syrup:

Get two or three cinnamon sticks, one cup of water, and one cup of white sugar, and combine in a pot. Smash the cinnamon sticks so they’re in a few pieces. Heat on medium, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Once it starts to simmer, cover and reduce the heat, and simmer for about 10 minutes. Then strain out the solids.

One important point that’s nearly always forgotten: You need to measure the amount you have left. You lost an unknown amount of water to evaporation, and it will change the concentration of the sweetness (reducing by 60 percent would yield a much sweeter 0.25 oz. of cinnamon syrup than reducing by 30 percent), so you have to add the lost water back. If you used one cup of water and one cup of sugar, you’ll want 1.5 cups of syrup (sugar reduces volume by half when it dissolves), so add back the water you lost to evaporation until you hit 1.5 cups.

Palo Santo Smoke: There are two ways to do this:

If you’re going to make a bunch of these, smoke the cinnamon syrup. Get yourself a cheap smoking gun and pipe smoke into a container that has the cinnamon syrup, then close the lid. Invert a few times to infuse for about seven to 10 seconds, then open the container and blow off the smoke. Ten seconds is all you need and is probably on the high side—if you’re doing less than 12 oz. at a time, start with five seconds and then taste. You can always add more, but you can’t take it away. Oversmoked syrup is literal trash. If you’re just making one or two, you can always smoke the glass. First, make the drink in a mixing glass. Then, put a piece of palo santo wood on a non-reactive surface (stainless steel, a cast iron pan, or just a larger piece of different wood) and burn it with a blowtorch until it starts to smoke. Invert your glass over the smoke and let it infuse there for eight to 10 seconds, then flip the glass right-side-up, allowing the smoke to escape. Then add ice and cocktail. The glass obviously won’t pick up much smoke, but it’ll pick up a little, and will give your cocktail a subtle smoke.

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It's time to get pegged.

[waneella]

I’m happy to announce that now it’s possible to taste a mocktail based on my artwork “Second Chance”! You can find the drink at Choushudou Bar Lounge Terrace in Odawara!

Music in video is "Color Particles" by Ponpoko in the Distance.

The artwork was created for Harugo No Mayu “From the Soil” prints collection and it’s available for purchase here: https://www.harugonomayu.com/shop/p/second-chance-by-waneella

You can also make the “Second Chance” mocktail at home! 

The recipe includes:

Apricot syrup

Homemade tea syrup

Ginger beer (non alcoholic softdrink)

Grapefruit juice

Blue curacao syrup

Butterfly pea flower syrup

[lowspoonsgourmet]

easy non-alcoholic mixed drinks

not something that we usually post, but thought it might be nice for the times when you want something slightly fancier than a pre-packaged drink, but don’t want to put in too much effort or drink alcohol. the instructions for all of the following “recipes” are to simply mix the ingredients together in a tall glass.

passion fruit + grapefruit twist:

12 oz. grapefruit sparkling water

1/3 cup passion fruit juice cocktail

pomegranate berry “sangria”:

12 oz. cranberry, mixed-berry, or cherry sparkling water

1/3 cup pomegranate juice

optional: 2 tbs. cranberry juice

optional: 1 tbs. grenadine syrup

optional, but recommended if using unsweetened juice(s): sugar to taste

cranberry lime:

12 oz. lime sparkling water

1/3 cup cranberry juice

optional, but recommended if using unsweetened juice(s): sugar to taste

optional: half a small lime’s worth of fresh juice

optional: a slice of fresh lime as garnish for the rim

summer sunrise:

6 oz. plain sparkling water or tonic water

1/2 cup orange juice

1/4 cup pomegranate juice

optional: 2 tbs. grenadine syrup

[daily-deliciousness]

White hot chocolate

[randomomensandportents]

Fun Fact: I used to be a bartender in New Orleans. I dedicate this drink to Gale of Waterdeep.

3 parts Empress Gin Indigo

2 parts St. Gemain

Set a spoon full of Everclear on fire and carefully drip on the drink

Admire your flaming cup of booze

Put out the fire with 1/2 shot of lemon juice

Watch as your drink goes from deep purple to pink

Don't burn your lips on the glass, it's hot.

[dark-ethereal-visions]

Horror themed drinks are the best!

(Unfortunately, these cards don't include measurements. Take your best guess!)

[tulipsstudyblr]

Super random but I tried a new drink today! I made my own version of the iced London Fog. I love having a nice drink to have for studying and today this was definitely it!

I didn’t make the cold foam in the original recipe, but I did have a salted caramel cold foam so I used that. It was definitely still suuuuper good. It was definitely a nice new study drink for this evening.

I was still pretty productive today as well!

I had a tutoring session today that went very well

Went to the grocery store and found a sale on Pringles (chips are one of my favorite study snacks)

Got a pitcher for my iced coffee (I like to make the night before it so it’s easier in the morning)

Did all my English homework (including getting through like 6 chapters of Dracula and if you know anything about that book…whew)

Got through my French homework and Honors homework in about an hour

Had time to do a full shower with shaving and hair washing + did a face mask and properly moisturized

Listening to the audiobooks of textbooks I struggle to get through has definitely been a help to me this week. 10/10 recommend. I do it when I need to do other things like chores, other written homework, but also need to read for a couple hours.

(the recipe isn’t mine, found on Pinterest @ https://pin.it/5LlIRAbaV)

[zardyplants]

Apple Cider Slushie

[esthers-wine]

A little recipe as the season grows colder, it already has here in the north. 🩷

[purple-raspberries]

Another food recommendation now that its getting real cold here. ATOLE! ☕️

If you haven’t yet heard of atole yet, you’re missing out. It’s the perfect hot drink for any time of day and it’s super easy to make! (This isn’t a recipe, really. More like a general process)

[example Image from muydelish.com]

Atole is a sweet, water and/or milk-based drink thickened slightly with cornstarch or corn flour (masa harina)(which is not to be confused with corn meal). Though, my mom likes to experiment with toasted garbanzo beans, barley, oat, and rice, which you can make by optionally toasting and then soaking those grains overnight, blending them into a paste, and using it as a thickener (Garbanzo is quite good! if a bit gritty). Traditionally this drink is sweetened with piloncillo, a kind of cone sugar and easily found in Mexican stores, but whatever sweetener works since this is something for you to make yourself. And who am I to govern what you use? Plain or brown sugar are easy substitutes.

Cinnamon, chocolate, and vanilla are the most popular flavors, I think, but strawberry is a common one you can also find in atole packet mixes. Atole mixes are also common in mexican/latin markets, as far as I know. The brand here is the one I used to have as a kid.

The general process is super simple:

For however much you want to make, say 4 cups, you can take about 1 cup of that in water and simmer it with cinnamon sticks to your desired strength (5-15 min depending on water quantity. Mom says color is a good indicator). You should add your cone sugar here if using. (The most simple atole I know of is pretty much thickened cinnamon tea!)

Once steeped you can add 3 cups milk, the starch slurry, and sugar, if you haven’t already. Note: always mix starches with a small quantity of water or milk for a recipe like this. Adding them straight into the pot results in clumps.

Then just stir constantly for a few minutes on a medium-ish heat until the starches set. Feel free to flavor with chocolate powder, vanilla, both, or whatever other spice if you’re the experimental type. (I’d personally like to try a chai flavored atole, that’s sounds pretty good rn ngl)

Overall, it’s a minimum 3 ingredient drink! 5 ingredients max. Don’t like cinnamon? Leave it out! The whole point is to warm up, so whatever works for you 🌼 and make extra! It stores well enough in the fridge :D

[acocktailmoment]

Sparkling Elegance !

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Pear juice

0.75 oz Apple juice

0.5 oz Cranberry juice

3 oz Barefoot Bubbly Extra Dry

Sugar rim mixture: Equal parts sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg

Lemon wedge for the rim

Cinnamon sticks for garnish

Instructions:

On a plate, mix sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Use the lemon wedge to wet the rim of a chilled glass, then dip it into the sugar mixture to coat.

Combine the juices and ice in a shaker, giving it a good shake to chill and mix.

Strain the juice mixture into the prepared glass.

Top with Barefoot Bubbly Extra Dry for a sparkling finish.

Garnish with a cinnamon stick for a festive aroma and flair.

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[curiouscatalog]

From: Thomas, Jerry. The Bar-Tender’s Guide, or, How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks : Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States, Together with the Most Popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish Recipes : Embracing Punches, Juleps, Cobblers, Etc., Etc., in Endless Variety. An entirely new and enlarged edition. New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, 1887.

TX951 .T46 1887

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[autumngracy]

The Great Eggnog Riot at West Point Military Academy | Tasting History with Max Miller

[randomomensandportents]

Welcome to the Elfsong Tavern

Today's Drink is Astarion's Kiss

3 parts Brandy

2 parts Dry Red Wine (I like Chianti in this, but Merlot was tasty too)

A splash of Triple Sec

Shake with ice and stain into a glass

Top with pomegranate juice

If you are not familiar with bartending "parts" Is typically synonymous with ounces, so one part = once ounce. But it can also mean equal measurements.