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In the mix
Somewhere, I remembered, I’d read about a simple formula for making cocktail drinks, but it took me much of the day to find the reference — I have so many food magazines stacked around the house that I had to page through them, twice, to find the right page. It’s in the January 2009 Bon Appetit, online here:
The best cocktails are the simplest—two or three ingredients mixed in the proper quantities, with passion. Many follow an easy formula: spirit + citrus juice + sweetener = cocktail. Remember it (2 ounces spirit, 1 ounce citrus juice, 1/2 to 3/4 ounce sweetener), and you’ll be able to invent your own concoctions.
The Bon Appetit recipe for the Isle of Pines cocktail is very similar to the sun-burned rum runner recipe in The Great Exotic Fruit Book, from which I make homemade grenadine (the sweetener in the rum runner) each winter.
I’ve made rum runners for me and Erin, and we’re sipping them as we wind down from an evening at Disney on Ice at the RBC Center — I twittered from there, remarking on the imposter that should have been a Zamboni.
Tomorrow, I’m to tackle other recipes, including chapatis using flour I bought at an Indian market I discovered near my home (and next to a Filipino market, where I bought a bottle of pungent patis, a fish sauce).
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