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Recipes

Holiday drinks

By Wire services
Published December 28, 2005

Classic Champagne Cocktail

1 cube sugar

Angostura bitters

Chilled sparkling wine

Lemon twist

Soak sugar cube with a couple of good splashes of Angostura bitters and place in the bottom of a large flute. Fill slowly with sparkling wine. Garnish with lemon twist.

Source: Attributed to Metropolitan Hotel, New York, 1935, by Avalon Wine, Corvallis, Ore.

Kir Royale

Sparkling wine

1/2 ounce creme de cassis

Pour sparkling wine into a large chilled wine glass, add 1/2 ounce of creme de cassis (black currant liqueur), and stir gently. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

You may want to substitute the raspberry liqueur Chambord for cassis.

Source: www.webtender.com

Strawberry Kir Royale

Sparkling wine

1/2 ounce creme de cassis

Quartered fresh strawberries

Pour sparkling wine into a large chilled wine glass, add creme de cassis (black currant liqueur), and stir gently. Garnish with strawberry.

You might try Chambord as a substitute for cassis.

Mimosa

3 ounces orange juice

3 ounces Champagne

Pour chilled orange juice into a collins glass over two ice cubes. Fill with chilled Champagne, stir very gently, and serve.

Source: www.drinkstreet.com

Nelson's Blood

5 ounces Champagne

1 ounce tawny port

Pour the Champagne and port into a flute. Stir well and serve.

Source: www.drinksmixer.com

French 75

11/2 ounces gin

2 ounces lemon juice

2 teaspoons superfine sugar

Champagne

Shake all the ingredients except Champagne in a shaker with ice and strain into a collins glass. Top with Champagne and stir. Garnish with cherry.

Source: www.drinksmixer.com

Midori Mimosa

1 ounce Midori melon liqueur

1/3 ounce sweet and sour mix

4 ounces sparkling wine

Pour Midori and sweet and sour mix into a flute. Add sparkling wine.

Source: www.drinksmixer.com

Bonecrusher

1/2 ounce rum

1/2 ounce gin

1 shot sparkling wine

1/2 ounce vodka

1 splash Sprite

1 splash grenadine syrup

1 splash lemon juice

Mix ingredients and serve.

Source: www.drinkmixer.com

Bellini

2/3 cup white peach puree

1 teaspoon raspberry puree

1 bottle chilled prosecco, Asti Spumante Brut or other Italian sparkling wine

In the bottom of each flute or white-wine glass, pour about 11/2 tablespoons peach puree and add 2 or 3 drops of raspberry puree. Pour an equal amount of the wine into each glass and serve immediately.

Source: www.cooking.com

Caribbean Champagne

3/4 ounce light rum

3/4 ounce creme de banana

Chilled sparkling wine

Add rum and liqueur to flute and fill with sparkling wine. Garnish with banana slice and cherry.

Source: Original Guide to American Cocktails and Drinks by Robert Plotkin (BarMedia, 2004).

Sparky

Pepper-flavored vodka

Chilled sparkling wine

Pour a splash of vodka into flute, fill with sparkling wine.

Source: Korbel.

[Last modified December 27, 2005, 17:44:46]