Cocktails

COCKTAILS

A cocktail is a mixed drink containing two or more ingredients. Originally a mixture of distilled spirits, sugar, water, and bitters, the word has gradually come to mean almost any mixed drink containing alcohol.

Types Of Cocktails:

Cosmopolitan

• 1½ shots vodka
• 1 shot orange liqueur e.g. cointreau or triple sec
• 1 shot cranberry juice
• A dash of lime juice

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the vodka, liqueur, cranberry juice and lime juice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime twist.

• 1 shot white rum
• 1½ shots lime juice
• ½ shot sugar syrup*

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add rum, lime juice and sugar syrup. Shake well, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve garnished with a slice of orange.

Harvey Wallbanger

• 2 shots vodka
• 6 shots orange juice
• 1 shot Galliano

Put some ice cubes in a highball glass then add the vodka and orange juice. Stir lightly. Top with Galliano

Margarita

• ½ lime
• Coarse salt
• 2 shots tequila
• ¾ shot orange liqueur e.g. cointreau or triple sec
• 1 shot lime juice
• 1 teaspoon caster sugar

Rub the lime slice around the edge of a cocktail glass. Dip the damp edge in a plate of coarse salt. Leave to dry.

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the tequila, triple sec, lime juice and sugar. Shake well. Strain carefully into the ready-prepared glass.

Pina colada

• 2 shots white rum
• 4 shots pineapple juice
• 1 shot coconut cream
• 1 shot single cream (optional)

Put all the ingredients in a blender with some crushed ice. Whiz until smooth then pour into a highball or Collins glass. Garnish with a wedge of pineapple.

Singapore Sling

• 1 shot Gin
• ½ shot Cherry Brandy
• ¼ shot Cointreau
• ¼ shot Benedictine
• 4 shots Pineapple Juice
• ½ shot Lime Juice
• ¼ shot Grenadine
• A tiny dash of Angostura Bitters

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Pour in all the ingredients. Shake well. Strain into long chilled glasses. Serve garnished with a slice of pineapple and a cherry.