Planning to celebrate Fat Tuesday tomorrow? Here are few popular cocktail recipes to help entertain your Mardi Gras guests!
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1. HURRICANE COCKTAIL
Ingredients
1.5 oz amaretto liqueur
1 oz light rum
1 oz dark rum
6 oz orange juice
6 oz pineapple juice
1 tsp lemon juice
1 dash grenadine syrup
orange or pineapple slices for garnish
1 maraschino cherry
Directions
Fill a tall (approx 16 oz) glass with ice. Pour in the amaretto and light and dark rums. Next, add the orange juice, pineapple juice, and lemon juice. Stir, then top with a dash of grenadine and garnish with an orange slice or pineapple wedge and a cherry.
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2. RED ROOSTER (or Madras)
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Ingredients:
1 cup ice cubes
2 fluid ounces vodka
4 fluid ounces cranberry juice
1/2 fluid ounce orange juice
Directions:
Fill a tall glass with ice. Pour in vodka. Fill glass to 3/4 full with cranberry juice. Top with orange juice. Stir.
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3. RED SNAPPER
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Ingredients:
1 1/4 oz whiskey
1 oz amaretto liqueur
1 oz cranberry juice
1 cup ice cubes
Directions:
Place the whiskey, amaretto, and cranberry juice into a shaker with ice. Shake, then strain into shot glasses.
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CHEERS!
Jennifer,
You have to include the It is one of America’s oldest cocktails and in 2008, an amendment was passed making it the official cocktail of the city of New Orleans. Give it a try this Mardis Gras or at your next cocktail party. Sipping is recommended, this is one stiff drink!
The Official Sazerac Cocktail
1 cube sugar
1½ ounces (35ml) Sazerac Rye Whiskey or Buffalo Trace Bourbon
¼ ounce Herbsaint
3 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Lemon peel
* Pack an Old-Fashioned glass with ice
* In a second Old-Fashioned glass place the sugar cube and add the Peychaud’s Bitters to it, then crush the sugar cube
* Add the Sazerac Rye Whiskey or Buffalo Trace Bourbon to the second glass containing the Peychaud’s Bitters and sugar
* Empty the ice from the first glass and coat the glass with the Herbsaint, then discard the remaining Herbsaint
* Empty the whiskey/bitters/sugar mixture from the second glass into the first glass and garnish with lemon peel
History: In the 1830s, Antoine Peychaud, an apothecary and Creole immigrant, ran a pharmacy on the French Quarter’s Royal Street. Antoine parlayed his experience into entertaining/treating his friends through mixing brandy, absinthe and a dash of his secret bitters (known today as Peychaud’s bitters). Peychaud’s concoction was later served at the Sazerac Coffee House and was named the Sazerac. The Sazerac Cocktail has evolved since it’s original creation, but remains in spirit one of America’s oldest cocktails.
Trivia:
* In the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button the Sazerac cocktail is Thomas Benjamin’s drink of choice, and the first alcoholic beverage that Benjamin consumed.
* Originally, the Sazerac was served in an egg cup called a coquetier.