Added: 11/06/2005 |
Citrus Juice Cocktails - Not Only ScrewdriverEvery citrus juices muddles well, so you could try mixing spirits with fruit juices. There are some general combinations you can apply as basis for you.
Orange juice is often mixed with white or dark rum. Try Jonkanoo Screwdriver with white rum and Galliano, Golden Clipper Cocktail with gin, peach-flavored brandy liqueur and white rum, Frosty Dawn with white rum, falernum and maraschino liqueur, Cubaine Cocktail with Bacardi white rum, lemon juice, Boringuen with white rum, lemon juice, Passionfruit liqueur, Bee's Knees Variation with white rum, honey, and lime juice. All mentioned cocktails you can find here http://www.cocktaildb.com. The web-site has several thousand drink recipes and a great search-system that allows you to search by 3 ingredients.
Orange juice is often mixed with vodka. For instance, Besides Screwdriver there are Yokohama Cocktail with gin, grenadine and pastis, Golden Spike with brandy, Huntress with ice and Cordial Medoc, Russian Roulette with banana-flavored brandy liqueur, Galliano and lemon juice, Svetlana with sweet vermouth and kirsch, Blue Mountain with dark rum and Tia Maria, Creamy Driver with egg yolk and sugar.
Lemon juice goes well with tequila. E.g. Tequonic with tequila, lemon or lime juice, Sunrise Cocktail with cream, crème de banane, Galliano and grenadine, Mexico.
The taste of lime juice goes well with gin. E.g. Adios Amigos with Bacardi white rum, brandy and dry vermouth, Appendicitis Cocktail with egg white and Curaçao, Barcelona Fizz with cocktail Sherry, Billy Taylor, Apple & Ginger Cocktail with applejack, ginger-flavored brandy liqueur.
Although you may use 100% industrial fruit juices, cocktail lovers know very well that citrus juices must be squeezed fresh. Fresh citrus juice is extremely important for making the quality cocktail. Try some experimentations to make sure that it really makes a great difference. So we'll mean these very citrus juices (fresh squeezed ones) when mention it below.
Lemon juice is the tartest of all citruses. It embodies a lot of tannin agent. One lemon yields about 2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice. If you don't like tartness of lemon juice, provide an element of sweetness by substituting it for sour mix - a mixture of lemon juice and sugar syrup. You may also meet other names of it - "sweet and sour mix" or "bar mix". All they mean just the same - a mixture of one part heavy sugar syrup with one part lemon juice. To prepare heavy sugar syrup dissolve 3 parts sugar in 2 parts water - just mix them, shake well, let sit, and shake well again. Some people add 2 egg whites per liter of mix to make the drink slightly foamy.
It is more convenient to prepare the quantity of lemon juice you expect to use during the evening ahead of time; in that case store this in a glass container that either should be kept refrigerated.
Here is some information about various citrus juices (Mexican lime juice, musklime juice, bitter orange juice and others), that you may drink just as they are or to make cocktails: http://www.foodsubs.com/Juice.html.
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