Christmas (Commonwealth Union)_ here are the final three of the easy Christmas Cocktail recipes as promised.
28 Crème Brulé Martini
Combine 1½ ounces Don Julio silver tequila, 1¼ ounces vanilla vodka, 1¼ ounces white chocolate liquor, and 1 ounce Baileys with ice in a shaker. Shake until ice cold, then pour into a martini glass. Garnish with caramel dome.
29 Cranberry Ginger Punch
In a rocks glass, combine 1¼ ounces Bulleit Bourbon, ¼ ounce ginger syrup and 2½ ounces cranberry juice. Top with 1 ounce club soda and garnish with frozen cranberries. To make enough for a group of around 20 people, pour one 750-milliliter bottle of Bulleit Bourbon into a punch bowl, and multiply all other ingredients by 20.
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30 Festive Fizz
Add 1 part Malfy Gin and ¾ part Lillet Blanc in a glass over ice. Stir then top with 1 part club soda and 2½ parts G.H. Mumm Brut Champagne. Garnish with grapefruit or lemon twist.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COCKTAIL SHAKER
Cocktail shaking is the form of an art that has mesmerized humanity for many years.
The main function of a cocktail shaker is to accurately integrate the ingredients of a cocktail, martini, shot, or any drink that has two or more elements into one deliciously flavored beverage.
If you think of a cocktail shaker as a container used to mix a liquid, you could argue that they have been in use for thousands of years. This specific bar tool could be traced to 7000 BCE in prehispanic Mexico and South America, where the jar gourd was used as a closed container (Source), but as a tool behind the bar, it is much more recent.
Bartenders often mixed drinks by pouring them between tho cups Until the mid 1800’s,. Rumour has it that an Innkeeper decided to make “a bit of a show” by placing a smaller cup inside the larger and shaking. The new method became much more common throughout the remainder of the 19th century and spurred quite a few patents related to this new style of mixing drinks.
After the 1950’s, cocktail shakers regained popularity and became much more commonplace in the home.
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