Category: Cocktails & Spirits

TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Shrub, a.k.a. Drinking Vinegar

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There are shrubs for landscaping, and shrubs for drinking. The latter is an acidulated beverage: made with an acid such as vinegar, lemon or lime juice along with fruit juice, sugar and optional ingredients including herbs, spices and alcohol. The word is a transposition from the Arabic shurb, a cool drink. In the U.K. today,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Rickey, Cocktail Or Cocktail

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When we were in college, we went often to the Brigham’s Ice Cream Parlor in Harvard Square for a Raspberry-Lime Rickey. The coffee shop craze that began in Seattle had not yet become a destination elsewhere. Rickeys were the Frappuccinos of the day. To us, a Rickey was raspberry syrup mixed into club soda with…
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FOOD FUN: Fish Bowl Or Shark Tank Punch

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[1] Sip the punch, eat the fish (photo and recipe courtesy CocktailsDetails.com). [2] Prefer to swim with the sharks? Use shark gummies instead. Or make a statement by using four fish and one shark (photo courtesy Amazon.com).   Last summer we presented Pool Party Punch, a cocktail as blue as a swimming pool. This year,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Piña Colada Jell-O Shots

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[1] You can make Piña Colada shots with rum, or with add more pineapple juice for a cocktail (photo courtesy BreadBoozeBacon.com). [2] The inspiration: a Piña Colada (photo courtesy Tommy Bahama).   July 10th is National Piña Colada Day, which reminded us that we’d saved a recipe for Piña Colada Jell-O Shots. So today’s tip…
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