Christmas cocktails: all mixed up in the house! - video recipes at home

The idea was good. It quickly spread to the elite circles, and then went to the masses. Cocktail parties swept the world. In the process of this movement has changed not only the contents of cocktails, but also relevant to them, and now we have reached an absolutely avant-garde approach, in which you can shake a cocktail, without mixing.

In a word, thinking about the cocktails, you get an entirely different universe than the one in which there are, for example, salad and herring under a fur coat. As well as a Christmas goose.

Cocktail party recalls an evening spent in the society of ghosts. They are lightweight, translucent, charmingly. Each of them has its own history, its own secret vice and its way to bewitch you. As well as its danger.

Cocktail "Sparkling Sangria" from prominent mixology Alexander Kahn. Watch the video!

Now imagine that you are sick to death of banquet tables and dinners, breakfasts in passing. You have a keen sense of the food comes hopelessness, and you even thinking about to go to New Year's Eve to sleep immediately after the transfer "Good night, kids!".

Of course, you can lay down and sleep. This is useful. But, if you still were anxious kid of any age, we recommend that you consider one of the following radical cocktail party, which is very possible, even change your life. Anyway, tonight.

And then it all depends on the direction.

Take, for example, a romantic New Year's Eve. First, decide on the venue. Your apartment, your room, your bathroom (room, if the bathroom is not free), but for the most wildly romantic - the old crypt and castle ruins ... In general, if you are still at home, we recommend the following New Year's recipes from the brilliant masters of gastronomic art. An authentic cranberry cocktail from Martha Stewart

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2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries

1 cup maple syrup

2 cups dry red wine (recommended Pinot Noir)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 vanilla pod

Zest of 1/2 lemon

2 tbsp. pink pepper Spoon pepper

1 pinch of coarse salt

2/3 cup white sugar

2 cups mineral water

How to cook cranberry cocktail:

1. Preheat oven to 180 ° C. Place the cranberries in a saucepan, pour over berries with water, cover with a sauté pan with foil. Cranberries Bake for 10 minutes, it should be soft.

   Mix in a small saucepan, maple syrup, red wine, brown sugar, open the vanilla pod, lemon zest, pink pepper and salt.

2. Bring to a boil, from time to time a little whip. Transfer the baked cranberries in a bowl and fill it with one cup of syrup.
3. Cool. With the help of a blender mash. Next step: in a small saucepan, mix the remaining syrup with white sugar, bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly, sugar should be dissolved.
4. Reduce heat to low and cook for about 6 minutes. Strain. Allow the liquid to cool completely. (Syrup can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 3 days).

Serving: You will need 4 glasses of 340 ml volume. In each glass put on 60 ml of cranberry puree and syrup, mix thoroughly. Add ice and pour mineral water to the rim of each glass. If you still have in the pantry, and a stove for you is not available, we recommend another drink.

Rustic Cocktail Mixology from the English Andy Pearson (Andy Pearson)

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2 tbsp. tablespoons dried cranberries

124 ml pear nectar

1 l nutmeg sparkling wine

8 small sprigs of fresh rosemary

How to cook rustic cocktail:

1. Place the cranberries in a small bowl and fill it with two of Art. l. warm water, leave for 15 minutes. Take the cranberries, dry and cool it in the refrigerator.
2. In the 8 glasses pour pear nectar, add cranberries, gently pour in the champagne and garnish with sprigs of rosemary.

If you do decide to go alone in the crypt or in the ruins of the castle, as well as, if you form a cheerful company, but you celebrate the New Year on an ice floe, you'll like warming cocktail from the American masters of mixology Nick Moton ( nick Mautone)

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28 ml orange vodka

14 ml of orange brandy

14 ml of honey

9 ml of hot water

15 ml of lemon juice

14 ml of orange juice

anise - a pinch of

How to cook a warming cocktail:

1. in a shaker (or any closing bowl) honey mix and hot water, actively agitate.

   Add the vodka, lemon juice, orange juice and a pinch of anise.

2. Vigorously shake again immediately serve a cocktail to be hot!

Finally, it is in any place, you can arrange a cocktail party with an absolutely exclusive and even, to some extent, secret cocktails from restobara "Spotlight" and "Barbara Bar", created by the legendary Moscow mixology Alexander Kahn.

Bitter Spirito

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40 ml Martini Spirito *

20 ml amaretto

20 ml grapefruit juice

5 ml Angostura

grapefruit

How to prepare a cocktail BitterSpirito:

Components pour into a glass with ice, stir and strain into a glass with ice Rocks, remove the zest from the grapefruit, add part of the cocktail, the remnants to decorate glass.

* Cocktail Bitter Spirito recommended to cigars. At the heart of the cocktail - Aperitif Martini Spirito, which is made of smoked tea and spices that gives the drink the taste of smoke. A bitterness bitters and grapefruit - male character and goes well with bitter cigars.

Sherry Oak

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40 ml of whiskey

20 ml fino sherry

20 ml of sugar syrup

50 ml of pineapple juice

Sod ice

For the decoration - from pineapple chips, ground cinnamon

How to prepare a cocktail of " Sherry Oak "

Whisk all ingredients in a shaker. Filter the mixture into a glass lump Rocks with ice. Decorate a glass of pineapple chips and ground cinnamon.

If the soul asks holiday, but it is advisable to fit into a tight budget, you can safely cook simple, but no less than trendy cocktail Sgroppino native of Venice, it recommends that the bar manager Torro Grill & Wine Bar Constantine Krivozubov.

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So, cocktail:

25 ml of vodka

50 ml champagne

50 ml lime sorbet

10 ml of 10% cream

2 tbsp. spoons of crushed ice

How to prepare a Cocktail Sgroppino:

1. Mix all ingredients and add ice, put in a blender and whip. Optionally, add 5 ml of sugar syrup.
2. Pour into a glass.

And the last. Cocktails like "Ruff", "brown bear", "Northern Lights", "cutting the beer" and "Screwdriver" has long been recognized as a biological weapon. Just forget about them. In addition, the registry the most boring and unfashionable cocktails this year entered "Bloody Mary" and "Margarita".