On The Seventh Day Of Christmas

I give to thee...7 Cocktail Recipes...

Here are seven drinks just in time for all yr New Year partying needs...One for each of the six major spirits, plus amaretto, cuz I've always got a bottle of amaretto in the house...

I kept the recipes simple and kinda classic...Maybe next year I'll crack out a couple of my Pernod recipes...

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Amaretto Stone Sour

2 oz AMARETTO
2 oz TEQUILA
2 oz SOUR MIX
splash ORANGE JUICE

SHAKE amaretto, tequila and sour mix with ICE...STRAIN into HIGHBALL GLASS...ADD splash of OJ...GARNISH with orange slice and marischino cherry...


Brandy Alexander

1 oz BRANDY
1 oz CREME DE CACAO
1 oz LIGHT CREME
NUTMEG

SHAKE all ingredients (except nutmet) with ICE, and STRAIN into COCKTAIL GLASS...SPRINKLE with nutmeg and sip contemplatively while smoking a pipe.


The Polish Martini

5 oz VODKA
1 tblsp DRY VERMOUTH
3 oz PICKLE JUICE
2 COCKTAIL ONIONS garnish
2 GHERKIN PICKLES garnish

SHAKE vodka and pickle juice with ICE and STRAIN into MASON JAR...WAVE the tablespoon of vermouth above the mouth of the jar, then DISCARD...DROP the onions and pickles into jar. REPEAT five or six more times until you reek like a Krakow hooker.


Sweet Gin Rickey

3 oz GIN
juice of 1 LIME
CARBONATED WATER
1 LIME wedge
2 tsp SUGAR

POUR gin and lime juice into HIGHBALL GLASS with ICE CUBES...FILL with carbonated water, ADD sugar, and STIR...GARNISH with lime wedge...


05: Hot-Buttered Rum

3 oz DARK RUM
3 tsp SUGAR
3 tsp BUTTER
3 CLOVES

PUT rum, sugar and butter into MUG...FILL with BOILING WATER...STIR...ADD cloves...A supremely tasty and toasty drink for the winter season here in the land of the ice and snow...It's only the end of December, and already Madison is on track to set another new snowfall record for the season...

06: I Am Curious Orange Margarita

3 oz TEQUILA
2 oz TRIPLE SEC
5 oz ORANGE JUICE
1 splash SOUR MIX

COMBINE tequila, triple sec and OJ with ICE and STIR...POUR into MARGARITA GLASS...ADD a splash of sour mix...Delicious, and whatever you do - do NOT salt the rim of the glass...


07: The Sherlock

3 oz WHISKEY
1 oz JAGERMEISTER
7-Up

PUT exactly 4 ICE CUBES in a ROCKS GLASS GLASS...ADD whiskey and Jagermeister...STIR, then FILL glass with 7-UP...If you drink five or six of these things, you'll be solving crimes and wooing women with elementary precision and aplomb...And what I mean is that you'll be acting like a third-grader, and isn't that almost the point of New Year's Eve?


Hotcha New Year! Hank