last week, my brother requested some recipes for easy cocktails. i wrote up a thing, then thought i would expand and post it here.
i tried to follow some rules:
very tasty!
easy to make, not too many ingredients, no difficult techniques needed; infusions and homemade syrups optional.
easy to find and inexpensive ingredients and brands
no exotic ingredients [...]
i made another batch of zombies, this time i made the passionfruit syrup by reducing the passionfruit nectar in half. this was not as successful; i prefer the uncooked passionfruit flavor.
i also started thinking about being more mathematical/systematic about making syrups. i figure that a cup of 1:1 syrup has 360 [...]
here’s what i took from kaiser penguin’s zombie recipe comparison: a zombie is a complex, carefully proportioned mixture of anything i want to put in it.
i had a hard time finding passionfruit juice, so i used santa cruz ‘passionfruit nectar’ which is a pretty sorry substitute.
i also didn’t feel like buying any 151 just [...]
