Drink and Cocktail Recipes 2
Long Island Iced Tea
1 part vodka 1 part tequila 1 part rum 1 part gin 1 part triple sec 1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix 1 splash cola
Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour back into the glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top. Garnish with lemon.
Mai Tai
1 oz light rum 1/2 oz crme de almond 1/2 oz triple sec sweet and sour mix pineapple juice 1/2 oz Myer'sョ dark rum
Pour light rum, crème de almond and triple sec, in order, into a Collins glass. Almost fill with equal parts of sweet and sour mix and pineapple juice. Add dark rum, a large straw, and serve unstirred.
Margarita
1 1/2 oz tequila 1/2 oz triple sec 1 oz lime juice salt
Rub the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice, and dip in salt. Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into the glass, and serve.
Mojito
3 fresh mint sprigs 2 tsp sugar 3 tbsp fresh lime juice < 1 1/2 oz light rum club soda
In a tall thin glass, crush part of the mint with a fork to coat the inside. Add the sugar and lime juice and stir thoroughly. Top with ice. Add rum and mix. Top off with *chilled* club soda (or seltzer). Add a lemon slice and the remaining mint, and serve.
Mudslide
1 1/2 oz Bailey's® Irish cream 1/2 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
Pour Hershey's chocolate syrup around the inside rim of a rocks glass. Fill with ice, add ingredients, and serve.
Old Fashioned
2 oz blended whiskey 1 sugar cube 1 dash bitters 1 slice lemon 1 cherry 1 slice orange
Combine the sugar cube, bitters, and 1 tsp. water in an old-fashioned glass. Muddle well, add blended whiskey, and stir. Add a twist of lemon peel and ice cubes. Add slices of orange and lemon and top with the cherry. Serve with a swizzle stick.
Pina Colada
3 oz light rum 3 tbsp coconut milk 3 tbsp crushed pineapples
Put all ingredients into an electric blender with 2 cups of crushed ice. Blend at a high speed for a short length of time. Strain into a Collins glass and serve with a straw
Rob Roy
1 1/2 oz Scotch whisky 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
Stir ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Salty Dog
5 oz grapefruit juice 1 1/2 oz gin 1/4 tsp salt
Pour all ingredients over ice cubes in a highball glass. Stir well and serve. (Vodka may be substituted for gin, if preferred.)
Seabreeze
1 1/2 oz vodka 4 oz cranberry juice 1 oz grapefruit juice
Pour vodka over ice into highball glass. Add mixers. The drink may be garnished with a wedge of lime.
Sex on the Beach
1 oz vodka 3/4 oz peach schnapps cranberry juice grapefruit juice
Add vodka and peach schnapps to a highball glass. Fill with equal measures of cranberry juice and grapefruit juice, and stir.
Sloe Comfortable Screw
3 oz sloe gin 3 oz Southern Comfort® peach liqueur 3 oz orange juice 3 oz vodka
Stir or shake ingredients & serve with ice.
Strawberry Daiquiri
1/2 oz strawberry schnapps 1 oz light rum 1 oz lime juice 1 tsp powdered sugar 1 oz strawberries
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Tequila Sunrise
1 shot tequila Orange juice 2 dashes grenadine syrup
Pour tequila in a highball glass with ice, and top with orange juice. Stir. Add grenadine by tilting glass and pouring grenadine down side by flipping the bottle vertically very quickly. The grenadine should go straight to the bottom and then rise up slowly through the drink. Garnish stirrer, straw and cherry-orange.
Tom Collins
2 oz gin 1 oz lemon juice 1 tsp superfine sugar 3 oz club soda 1 maraschino cherry 1 slice orange
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, lemon juice, and sugar. Shake well. Strain into a collins glass almost filled with ice cubes. Add the club soda. Stir and garnish with the cherry and the orange slice.
Whiskey Sour
2 oz blended whiskey juice of 1/2 lemons 1/2 tsp powdered sugar 1 cherry 1/2 slice lemon
Shake blended whiskey, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a whiskey sour glass. Decorate with the half-slice of lemon, top with the cherry, and serve.
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