I've just been creating a cocktail in celebration of a friend's birthday, as he's coming over to my place with his wife and son and I'm cooking. So I thought I'd create a cocktail with a vintage feel to it. Usually I recreate vintage cocktails from the 20's and 30's from old Cocktail Books, but this is the first time I've 'created one' from scratch. So I had to think about flavours that would compliment each other, the strengths of flavour, the juxtapositions of sweet and sours..etc and also the balance of quantity. I have created, "The Ginger Rogers Cocktail." If you'd like to make this (and I'll post this on my personal blogg, "PADDY WAGON COCKTAIL LOUNGE." See links).
RIGHT...Ice in cocktail shaker.Sugar lump in cocktail glass, and soak THE LUMP in Angostura Bitters.
Pour into shaker, 2oz Cointreau; 1oz Ginger Wine; 1/4 fresh squeezed lime juice.
SHAKE over ice & pour into glass. Garnish with lime slice.
JOB DONE!!
Ginger wine you say? Never had it, is it like ginger beer? Sounds delish, you must have quite the cocktail bar!
ReplyDeleteWell Betty, go get yourself out there girlfriend (as Gok would say!) and grab some Ginger Wine...it's lovely!!
ReplyDeleteSounds simply divine, Paddy. I must get my hands on some ginger wine!
ReplyDeleteGenius, Sir! I've just made myself one of these *lovely* concoctions and it's...well, just lovely!
ReplyDeleteGosh I feel posh!
Roxy(HH)- where did you find the Ginger Wine, girlfriend??
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