At-Home Drinks
Make your dreams come true and become a bartender of your own house. Here you can find the cocktails that the Four Hundred team has been making for Happy Hour, join us! Simple directions are below to ensure that you really enjoy your evenings while in isolation.
INA GARTEN’S COSMOPOLITAN
INGREDIENTS
2 cups (16 ounces) good vodka, such as Grey Goose or Finlandia
1 cup (8 ounces) Triple Sec or Cointreau
1 cup (8 ounces) bottled cranberry juice cocktail
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (3 limes)
PREPARATION
Pour the vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and lime juice into pitcher. Fill a cocktail shaker 1/2 full with ice. Pour the cosmopolitan mixture into the cocktail shaker until it’s 3/4 full and shake for 30 seconds. Pour the mixture into the martini glasses and serve immediately.
Classic Margarita
INGREDIENTS
Ice cubes
3 ounces of Tequila
2 ounces of freshly squeezed lime juice
1 ounce of Simple Syrup (one cup of sugar, one cup of water in a saucepan mixed together over low heat)
1 tablespoon Lime-salt-sugar (blend together lime, salt and sugar in a small blender or mini food chopper)
PREPARATION
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add tequila, lime juice, Simple Syrup and orange liqueur. Cover and shake until mixed and chilled, about 30 seconds. Place Lime-salt-sugar on a plate. Press the rim of a chilled rocks or wine glass into the mixture to rim the edge. Strain margarita into the glass.
Classic Martini
INGREDIENTS
2 1/2 ounces gin or vodka
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
Ice
Lemon peel twist or olives, for garnish
PREPARATION
Before you build your Martini, put your Martini glass in the freezer to chill. Place the gin or vodka and dry vermouth in a mixing glass (for stirred) or a shaker (shaken). Add cubed ice and stir for 30 seconds until the Martini is chilled or add cubed ice and shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Strain the drink into your chilled Martini glass. Pare a lemon peel, and express (pinch) the back of the lemon peel over the Martini. Rub the lemon peel around the rim of the glass and drop it into the glass. Alternatively, garnish with speared olives and add olive juice to make it dirty.
Bloody Mary
INGREDIENTS
1 Lemon wedge
1 Lime wedge
2 ounces Vodka
4 ounces Tomato juice
2 dashes of Tabasco Sauce
2 tsp Prepared horseradish
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 pinch Celery salt
1 pinch Ground black pepper
1 pinch smoked paprika
PREPARATION
Pour some celery salt onto a small plate. Rub the juicy side of the lemon or lime wedge along the lip of a pint glass. Roll the outer edge of the glass in celery salt until fully coated.Fill with ice and set aside. Squeeze the lemon and lime wedges into a shaker and drop them in. Add the remaining ingredients and ice and shake gently. Strain into the prepared glass. Garnish with a parsley sprig, and additional toppings of your choice (recommend: pickles, olives, celery, bacon)
Classic Old-Fashioned
INGREDIENTS
1 sugar cube
2 to 3 dashes Angostura bitters
2 ounces bourbon (or rye whiskey)
Splash of club soda
Orange peel
Maraschino Cherry
PREPARATION
Place the sugar cube at the bottom of an old-fashioned glass. Saturate the cube with bitters, add an orange slice if you like, and muddle.Fill the glass with ice. Add the whiskey and stir well. Finish it off with a splash of club soda if you prefer. Garnish with an orange peel and cherry.
Negroni
INGREDIENTS
1 ounce gin
1 ounce Campari
1 ounce sweet vermouth
Orange peel
PREPARATION
Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice, and stir until well-chilled. Strain into a rocks glass filled with large ice cubes. Garnish with an orange peel.
Whiskey Sour
INGREDIENTS
2 ounces bourbon
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
¾ ounce simple syrup
½ orange wheel
Maraschino cherry
PREPARATION
Combine bourbon, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is very cold, about 20 seconds. Strain cocktail into an old-fashioned or rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange wheel and cherry.
Aperol Spritz
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 ounces Aperol
3 ounces prosecco
3/4 ounce sparkling water or club soda
1 orange slice, for garnish, optional
PREPARATION
Fill a white wine glass halfway with ice. Add the Aperol, prosecco and sparkling water, and stir twice with a spoon. Serve with an orange slice if desired.
Non-Alcoholic Raspberry Mojito
INGREDIENTS
3-4 fresh raspberries plus more for garnish
5-6 mint leaves
2 tbsp simple syrup see directions below for how to make a simple syrup
ice
1/4 cup raspberry juice or can use cran-raspberry juice
2 tbsp fresh lime juice approx. 1/2 medium-large lime
1/2 cup club soda or sparkling mineral water
PREPARATION
To make a simple syrup, combine 1 cup granulated sugar with 1 cup water (or just equal parts, if making more or less) in a medium sauce pan.
Heat over medium heat, stirring frequently, until sugar is completely dissolved. Allow to cool.
In a tall glass, add raspberries, mint leaves and the simple syrup.
Muddle (squish with the back of a wooden spoon) well until the mint, simple syrup and raspberries are well-combined. If possible, try not to break apart the mint leaves, as this (in my opinion) will make for a less pleasant drinking experience.
Fill glass with ice.
Add raspberry juice, then the lime juice, and then fill with soda.
Garnish with lime wedge or additional raspberries, if desired.
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