
Check here: Mixology Monday.
Hosted this month by RumDood.
I actually have two submissions, just because my two recent concoctions both fit the bill nicely. They are both instances of having the name first and coming up with a cocktail to match. In this case both recipes were inspired by some descriptive terms we have for a couple of our friends.
First:
Ginger Balls
Shake and strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- ¾ oz ginger infused vodka*
- ¾ oz Domaine de Canton Ginger Liquer
- ½ oz Cherry Heering
- ¾ oz fresh lemon juice
- 2 marasca cherries and one slice candied ginger for garnish
* for ginger infused vodka, wrap a 2 inch chunk of fresh ginger in foil and bake at 300 degrees for 40 minutes, then peel and slice into match sticks, then slip those into a 750 of vodka. It will be good after a few days, but I literally had one hiding in the back of my freezer for 5 years, and it was still great, and only recently met its fate after I came up with this drink and offered it at a cocktail party.
And my second submission:
The Chinesey
Stir all ingredients with cold ice, fish out star anise and drop in chilled nick&nora glass, strain drink over star anise pod.
- 1 ¾ oz Bulldog Gin**
- ½ oz Domaine de Canton Ginger Liquer
- ½ oz sake
- 3 dashes Fee Brother's Cherry Bitters
- 1 dash Orange Flower Water
- 1 Star Anise pod
In our group, we (ok, just I) sometimes refer to one or a group of our Asian friends as "Chinesey", thus the combo of sake and other vaguely Asian flavors in this drink. Hey, I warned in my first post that stuff like this was liable to pop up, remember the part about "jovial drunkard characterized by rough, extravagant humor"?
**Bulldog is only yet available in the NY tri-state area, maybe a few other places, and some European cities, so if you don't have it use some other London Dry Gin with not too assertive juniper, but I think Bulldog works especially well in this one because it is flavored with poppy and dragon eye so fits with the Asian theme. I also played with 1.5-2.0 oz of gin and they all worked, depending on your fondness for gin, so there's some leeway there.
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