i’ve been mining the alinea cookbook for drink ideas, here’s my first attempt. dad likes almost all of my concoctions (which i assume because he keeps asking for them) , but this is the only one he’s specifically praised.
ginger-mango alignment
2 oz hendricks gin
OR cucumber-infused gin
OR gin plus one thick cucumber slice
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz mango cubes
two coins of fresh ginger
1/2 to 3/4 oz falernum
OR simple syrup + 2 drops angostura bitters
muddle ginger, mango, and cucumber. add remaining ingredients, shake, strain coarsely, pressing solids. pour liquid back into the strainer, add ice, shake until very cold.
poor man’s hendricks
let’s say you don’t have access to hendricks gin, or don’t want to pay that much, or you have a 10-year-old bottle of tanqueray that never gets used because hendricks is so superior, and finally you just need to accept, and bid farewell to, your past and all the terrible decisions you’ve made. also, cupboard space is scarce.
simply combine some peeled and seeded cucmbers in a jar with inferior gin and/or vodka, approximately 1/2 cup of cucumber to 1 1/2 cups alcohol. after a day or so, strain out the cucumber, and top off with more alcohol. how much gin and vodka? depends on your taste. you can also muddle the cucumber before straining, this will make your infusion cloudy, but if you’re mixing it with other stuff then who cares.
these proportions will yield a pretty aggressive cucumber taste. if subtely is thy name, then moderation shall be thy game. you pretentious fuck.
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