Cocktail recipes: six of the best cocktails in the world

Choose the best cocktail recipes was quite difficult, because the tastes are not, so we decided to allocate this "classics" cocktails, which is available in the menu bar of any self-respecting. After lengthy sorting and selection we stayed the following list of recipes:

1. Margaret

2. Cosmopolitan

3. B-52

4. Mojito

5. Bloody Mary

6. Tequila Boom

Margarita cocktail recipe

30 ml tequila
15 ml orange liqueur Cointreau
30 ml lime juice (lemon)
2.1 Egg yolk (optional)

To decorate:
slice of lime (lemon)

Pour tequila, Cointreau and lime juice in a shaker with crushed ice. Shake thoroughly and pour into a glass, the edges of which are sprinkled with salt. Garnish with a slice of lime margaritas.

You can see this in the cocktail menu of almost any bar or restaurant in the city of Moscow and all Russia.

This cocktail latinoamerikanskogo origin dates back to the emergence of an interval of approximately 1936-1948 year, there are many versions of his appearance, almost all featured woman named Margaret. Due to its taste cocktail quickly left America and spread around the world.

Options proportions in different cocktail recipes:

• 2: 1: 6 = 1: 3: 3 (50% tequila, 25% liquor "Triple Sec"Or" Cointreau ", 25% lime juice).
• 3: 2: 1 = 6: 4: 2 (50% tequila, 33% liquor "Triple Sec" or "Quantro" lime juice 17%).
• 3: 1: 6 = 1: 2: 2 (60% tequila, 20% liquor "Triple Sec" or "Quantro" lime juice 20%).
• 1: 1: 1 = 6: 6: 6 (33% tequila, 33% liquor "Triple Sec" or "Quantro" lime juice 33%).

Cosmopolitan cocktail recipe

30 ml vodka Finland (cranberry)
20ml Cointreau (Cointreau)
juice of half a lemon

One variety of this cocktail is called "Absolut Cosmopolitan". Cocktail recipe in this case is as follows:

• 45 ml lemon vodka "Absolute"
• 20 ml liquor "Triple SecпїЅ (Triple Sec)
• 20 ml of cranberry juice
• fresh juice of half a lime
• spiral of orange peel (for serving)

Utensils and equipment

• cocktail glass, 90 ml
• shaker

Cooking and Serving

Mix in a shaker and pour into a chilled dishes a la carte. Garnish with a spiral of orange peel.

Cocktail Recipe B-52

20 ml Kahlua liqueur (Kahlua)
20 ml of liquor Bailey`s Irish Creme
20ml Cointreau (Cointreau)

Pour Kahlua liqueur in glass. On the back of a spoon slowly pour the Baileys over the Kahlua. In the same manner pour the Cointreau over the Baileys. Set fire to the upper layer, drink hot.

There are several theories about the origin of B-52 cocktail. One theory holds that the cocktail was created in Bar "Alice" Malibu, and it is named after the bomber Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Another theory was that the cocktail was created in the bar "Keg's steakhouse " in Calgary.

There are several inOption prescription koknteylya

• Distributed the next version of the recipe B-52: in equal parts coffee liqueur Kahlua, cream liqueur Bailey's Irish Cream and orange liqueur Cointreau liqueur poured in layers of glass.

• There is an option of prescription, which ignited a cocktail. Podozhenny B-52 must be very fast to drink through a straw.

• There is a variant in which are mixed together and fed the cocktail on ice.

Mojito cocktail recipe

Mojito (Mojito) - Cocktails on the basis of white rum and mint leaves. Comes from the island of Cuba, became popular in USA in the 1980s.

Mojito traditionally consists of five ingredients: rum, sugar, lime, soda and mint. Its combination of sweet and refreshing citrus and mint, which may have added to the rum to "mask" Fortress of the latter, this cocktail is made one of the most popular summer drinks. Some hotels in Havana Mojito also added Angostura.

Cocktail recipe next. Take a few sprigs of mint,troostnikovy sugar, the juice of one lime, white rum and soda.

In a tall glass crush a sprig of mint and sugar. Hands to squeeze in a glass of sweet lime peel to put into a glass. Fill the glass with crushed ice, pour the rum and stir until the glass is not zapoteet. Top up with soda water and garnish with mint and serve with a straw.

Bloody Mary Cocktail Recipe

Bloody Mary - a cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, spices and other additives (often use Worcestershire sauce) .On the role of the inventor of "Bloody Mary" claimed by a few people. Some sources claim that the cocktail was originally created by George Dzhesselem approximately in 1939. The newspaper пїЅNew York Herald TribuneпїЅ December 2, 1939 was published what is believed to be the first reference to the drink, along with the original recipe, the authorship of which is attributed to George Jessel: "The new hangover drink George Jessel, draw attention to themselves correspondents and called Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half of vodka. "

Almost 25 years later, Fernand Petio bartender Paris bar пїЅHarry's New York BarпїЅ, claimed in a newspaper пїЅThe New YorkerпїЅ July 18, 1964, invented the drink in 1920:

"I came up with a Bloody Mary" - he told us. "George Jessel said he created the cocktail, but it was only vodka with juice and nothing else when he tried. I covered the bottom of the shaker 2.5 cm? salt 1.25 cm? pepper, 1.25 cm? cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce layer, then added 0.62 ml of Limni juice and a little crushed ice, poured 56.6 ml (two ounces) of vodka and 56.6 ml of tomato juice, shake well and pour. We were prepared from one hundred to one hundred and fifty cocktails daily "King Cole Room" and other restaurants and banquet halls. "

The origin of the name of the cocktail

Name associated with the name of the British Queen Mary I Tudor (1553-1558), nicknamed Bloody Mary for the massacre of Protestants, although the link between nazavaniem cocktail and the name of the Queen has not been proved.

The name probably refers to a similar blood color cocktail.

Preparing and serving cocktails

Bloody Mary and nonalcoholic Virgin Mary often prepares the morning (as mimosa and screwdriver), as a means of hangover.

While there is no difficulty in mixing vodka and tomato juice, more complex version of the drink have become trademarks of bartenders who make them. General decoration - celery feeding in a tall glass, often over ice.

The composition of the cocktail

• 2 parts vodka
• 3 parts tomato juice
• Ground salt and black pepper
• 3.72 ml Worcestershire sauce
• 0.25 ml Tabasco
• 5 ml of celery salt
• 5 ml of horseradish
• 0.62 ml of lemon or lime juice
• 0.62 ml orange juice
• At the request can be shaken vigorously or quietly.
• The cocktail can be added garnish from stalks of celery, olives, pickles, carrots, mushrooms and other plants; or even meat (salami, shrimp, and so on..) and cheese (see. photo).

Options Cocktail Recipe

Options alcohol bases

• No alcohol - known as cocktail Virgin Mary, Bloody Bloody shame or Virgo.
• Gin instead of vodka - known as Bloody Mary in the north-eastern United States since the 1950s, when vodka was not enough. After the restoration of volumes of deliveries, drink vodka for some time called red hammer.
• Mexican beer instead of vodka - Michelada.
• Sake instead of vodka - Bloody Geisha.
• Tequila instead of vodka - Bloody Mary.
• Whiskey instead of vodka - Mary Brown or Whiskey Mary.
• Sherry in the same amount - Bloody Bishop.

Options cocktails

• Beef bouillon cube instead of juice - Bovine volley. When the bouillon cube is mixed with juice - Bloody bull

Bloody Mary in Russian

In the tank is filled with tomato juice. Then, carefully, to avoid mixing, on the edge poured vodka. Optionally, you can season with pepper. Also found a variant in which to add on a knife blade must be exactly juice.

Cocktail recipe Tequila Boom

50 ml - tequila
150 ml - carbonated drink (for example, Sprite, beer)

Mix all the ingredients in a glass. When submitting cover glass cloth or hand and hit the rack. Quaff.

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