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Spring's here! Mix up a fresh, simple cocktail to ring in the season. Here are three to choose from.
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Cocktail Ingredients Quiz
Can you identify the ingredients in a martini, cosmopolitan, Manhattan, Mai Tai, Long Island Iced Tea, Harvey Wallbager and more? See how well you know your cocktails.
Cocktail Ingredients Quiz
Crazy for Cosmopolitans? You'll need vodka, Cointreau or triple sec, lime juice, and one other ingredient to shake 'em up at home.
- Grenadine
- Orange juice
- Cranberry juice
- Pink grapefruit juice
Some folks get fancy with the recipe, but a traditionally-made Mai Tai gets its signature flavor from lime juice, dark rum, grenadine (or simple syrup), curacao and what other key ingredient?
- Almond syrup
- Mango juice
- Coconut milk
- Orange juice
Shaking up vodka, cream, and this variety of liqueur results in a White Russian.
- Coffee
- White chocolate
- Vanilla
- Peppermint
The rim of a Sidecar glass is coated in what tasty substance?
- Sugar
- Salt
- Cocoa
- Honey
The non-alcoholic classic Shirley Temple contains ginger ale (or lemon-lime soda), orange juice and a sweet splash of what?
- Fruit punch
- Cranberry juice
- Grenadine
- Pineapple juice
Vodka or gin would need just this ingredient to be shaken or stirred into a gimlet.
- Roses Lime Juice Cordial
- Olive juice
- Fresh lime juice
- Pickle juice
Rye (or bourbon), vermouth, bitters and a cherry are the components of which classic cocktail?
- Negroni
- Old Fashioned
- Manhattan
- Rob Roy
Mix up rum, lime and Coca-Cola to make this drink.
- Cuba Libre
- El Presidente
- Bronx
- Corpse Reviver
Mint, sugar, lime, soda water and this liquor come together to be muddled into a mojito.
- Cachaca
- Tequila
- Rum
- Pisco
Standard ingredients in a Negroni include gin, vermouth and what other liquid?
- Lemon juice
- Egg whites
- Angostura bitters
- Campari
It's not just a punchline -- the Harvey Wallbanger is a fern bar staple featuring vodka, orange juice, and this odd liqueur.
- Goldschlager
- Rumplemintz
- Galliano
- Peach Schnaaps
When this is popped into a Martini in lieu of an olive, it becomes a Gibson.
- Jalapeno pepper
- Lime wedge
- Gherkin
- Cocktail onion
James Bond may be more commonly associated with the Martini, but writer Ian Fleming also had him slugging down Vespers, which are concocted from Lillet Blanc and which two liquors?
- Brandy & Scotch
- Gin & Vodka
- Vodka & Bourbon
- Bourbon & Brandy
Mix orange juice and this spirit for a hard-hitting Screwdriver.
- Rum
- Vodka
- Champagne
- Whiskey
Sure, you could ask for a vodka & cranberry with a lime wedge, but it's much more festive to order it this way:
- Greyhound
- Salty Dog
- Cape Cod
- Madras
If you've got bourbon, mint, and a splash of soda, you're on the right track to make the Derby Day classic, a Mint Julep. What's still missing?
- Lime
- Sugar
- Bitters
- Nothing
The Bloody Mary is a brunch standard, but this addition transforms it into a hearty Bloody Bull.
- Beef broth
- Red Bull
- A whole hot pepper
- Pepper vodka
Creme de menthe and cream are terribly tasty together, but if you want a Grasshopper, hop to the store for a bottle of:
- Vanilla vodka
- Creme de Cacao
- Green food coloring
- Mint extract
A Greyhound gets its distinctive flavor from vodka and this mixer:
- Sweetened lime juice
- Pineapple juice
- Cranberry and orange juice
- Grapefruit juice
We all know that a Long Island Iced Tea has no tea in the mix, but what liquor isn't part of the standard recipe?
- Bourbon
- Vodka
- Rum
- Tequila
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'Mad Men' Party Guide
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OK, we're projecting. Half the Slashfood staff is enamored with the show (see New York Magazine's handy primer) that is about to plunge into its third hard-drinking, heavy-philandering, Gotham-glamorizing season this Sunday. We are over the moon about the style, the cocktail culture, and those insane retro recipes.
It's the perfect excuse for a cocktail party (especially a costumed one), so bust out the pearls and heat up the curlers -- or grab the fedora and tiepin -- because it's totally OK to drink with friends on a Sunday night. No one batted a heavily lined eye at such a thing back in the day.
Our party primer, with tune selections, deviled eggs and LeNell's perfect martini, after the jump.
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Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth to Change US Formula
"Noilly Prat is a necessary component of a dry martini. Without it you can make a Sidecar, a Gimlet, a White Lady, or a gin and bitters, but you cannot make a dry martini." -- W. Somerset Maugham (1958)Are you A. a cocktail purist or B. a lucky stiff with a climate-controlled storage space? It's time to pair up and start stashing, 'cause the Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth you've been mixing into your Martinis since time immemorial is about to go the way of the Concorde. The Wall Street Journal reports that the makers of the august aperitif plan to expand the distribution of their "original formula," the European standard, to the exclusion of the current US version. Problem is, dry Martinis are a uniquely American construct, and the Euro version is, well, not exactly an ideal swap-in. It's regarded as a stand-alone beverage, rather than a cocktail ingredient, and from all reports, shies far from dry and subtle in several recpects.
"How sugary is it? If you took an old bottle of the dry vermouth and mixed it half-and-half with the Sauternes-sweet aperitif wine Lillet, you'd have a pretty good approximation of what to expect.
With the European Noilly Prat you won't get the crisp and untinged visual clarity now expected of a Martini unless you dial the vermouth back to about an eighth or a tenth of the mix." -- Eric Felten, Wall Street Journal
Yeeks! I've all but entirely shifted my loyalty toward Vya Vermouth over the past few years, but this news has me a tad shaken up. Anyone have a bit of cellar space to spare? I'll bring the olives and the D.H. Krahn.
Thanks to our pal Chess Ninja for this timely tip.
[via: The Wall Street Journal]
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