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Southern Belle #1
How to Shake and Strain Cocktails Properly?
MOREStep 1: Gather Your Tools
Ensure you have the following,
-Boston Shaker or Cobbler Shaker
-Mixing Tin (for Boston Shaker)
-Strainer (Hawthorne or Julep)
-Quality Ice Cubes
-Ingredients for Your Chosen Cocktail
Step 2: Add Ingredients to Shaker
Place all liquid ingredients into the shaker. If the recipe calls for citrus juice, add it last to prevent premature curdling.
Step 3: Add Ice
Fill the shaker with ice. Use enough to thoroughly chill the ingredients but not too much to dilute the cocktail excessively.
Step 4: Seal and Shake
For a Boston Shaker, place the mixing tin over the glass, creating a tight seal. Hold the shaker with one hand on the glass and the other on the tin. Shake vigorously, using a smooth, controlled motion for about 10-15 seconds.
Southern Belle #1
- Benedictine 1.5 cl
- Brandy 1.5 cl
- White Creme De Cacao 1.5 cl
Any Glass of your Choice
Southern Belle #1 Ingredients
Benedictine,Brandy,White Creme De Cacao,
Southern Belle #1 Recipe
Pour the brandy into a pousse cafe glass. Tilt the glass to a 4,5-degree angle and slowly pour the creme de cacao down the side of the glass so that it floats on the brandy. Repeat this procedure with the Benedictine.
Benedictine
Bénédictine is a French herbal liqueur, flavoured with twenty seven flowers, berries, herbs, roots and spices. It's a sweet liqueur with a delicious and unique taste. The flavour is smooth and sweet, like honey and also has a subtle taste of licorice to it too.
The recipe is closely guarded and is known to only three people are any given time.Brandy
Brandy, simply put, is a distilled wine. It is categorised under Distilled Alcoholic Beverages along with Whiskey, Rum, Gin, Vodka and Tequila, but it's in a way a cross connection between Fermented liquor and distilled liquor. A Brandy typically containts 35% to 60% Alcohol by Volume ( 70-120 US proof ) and is usually consumed as an after dinner digestif.
Although Brandy is generally classified as a liquor produced by distilling wine, in a broader sense, this encompasses liquors obtained from the distillation of either pomace ( the soild remains of grapes after mashing and extraction of juice for wine making ) or fruit mash or wine.
It may be noted that Brandy like Gin is also one of the original Water of Life or eau de vie, carried over from the medieval tradition of an aquaous solution of ethanol used as a medicine.
The history of Brandy is closely tied to the development of commercial distillation in and around the 15th Century. In early 15th Century French Brandy made way for a new cross-Atlantic trade or Triangle Trade and replaced Portuguese Fortified Wine or Port from the central role it played in trade, mostly due to the higher alcohol content of the Brandy and ease of transport. However by the late 17th Century, Rum replaced Brandy as the exchange alcohol of choice in the Triangle Trade. More info on Wikipedia for the interested Brandy aficionados. Note that an Apricot Brandy can refer to the liquor (or Eau de Vie, Water of Life) distilled from fermented apricot juice or a liqueur made from apricot flesh and kernels.White Creme De Cacao
Creme de Cacao is a chocolate liqueur that has probably been produced and sold in France since as early as 1666. In America a Chocolate wine was popular in the 18th Century, it's ingredients included sherry, port, chocolate and sugar.
A modern recipe for chocolate liqueur at home lists the ingredients as chocolate extract, vanilla extract and simple syrup and in purest form, chocolate liqueur is clear and colours may be added.
Creme de Cacao can be consumed straight and as an apertif, in cocktails and in desserts, in dessert sauces, cakes and truffles.
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