Cocktails, Mocktails, and Garnishes from the Garden: Recipes for Beautiful Beverages with a Botanical Twist (Unique Craft Cocktails)
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With a reference guide of herbal and floral flavors that complement different spirits, and details about what to plant and how to grow your very own herb bar, readers craft cocktail recipes alongside nature. Inside, learn about herbs and their uses as well as:
Katie Stryjewski
Katie Stryjewski is a writer, cocktail photographer, recipe developer, and Instagram influencer. She trained as an ornithologist and evolutionary biologist, receiving her PhD from Boston University and completing a postdoc at Harvard University before transitioning to her current career. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband and son. You can find her on Instagram @garnish_girl and visit her blog http://www.garnishblog.com/
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Cocktails, Mocktails, and Garnishes from the Garden - Katie Stryjewski
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Copyright © 2020 by Katie Stryjewski.
Published by Yellow Pear Press, a division of Mango Media Inc.
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Cocktails, Mocktails, and Garnishes from the Garden: Recipes for Beautiful Beverages with a Botanical Twist
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2020950843
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-496-5 , (ebook) 978-1-64250-497-2
BISAC category code: CKB006000, COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic / Bartending & Cocktails
Printed in the United States of America
Table of Contents
Introduction
Making Cocktails: The Basics
Growing a Cocktail Garden
The Recipes
Cognac
Brandy Crusta
Rosemary Pear Crusta
Sidecar
Garden State
Gin
Bee’s Knees
Daisy Chain
Clover Club
Carrie Nation
French 75
Lavande 75
Gimlet
Snap Judgement
Gin & Tonic
Juniper & Tonic
Martini
Dirty Gibson
Negroni
Strawberry Blonde
Pegu Club
Irrawaddy Float
Tom Collins
Cucumber Collins
Rum
Daiquiri
Sergeant Pepper136
Mai Tai138
Mock Tai
Mojito
Frojito
Old Cuban
Nuevo Cubano
Tequila
Margarita
Spicy Avocado Margarita154
Paloma
Flower Crown
Vodka
Bloody Mary
Thai Bloody Mary
Cosmopolitan
In Vogue
Moscow Mule
Mocktail Mule
Whiskey
Manhattan
Upstate
Mint Julep
Tea Thyme
New York Sour
New York Sour Popsicles
Old Fashioned
Fall Fashioned
Whiskey Smash
Ginger Sage Smash
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
For me, cocktails have always been a little bit magical. For years, they seemed like mysterious concoctions of strange and exotic ingredients, and bartenders were mystical alchemists who knew the secrets of their preparation. Even as I learned how to make them myself and that mystique faded, they never lost their magic. A cocktail makes special occasions more special, makes guests feel welcome, and stimulates the best conversation between friends. Classic recipes and historic spirits connect us to the past in a concrete and tangible way. Cocktails are special.
I actually remember the exact evening, in fact the exact drink, that made me fall in love with craft cocktails. It was 2009, and I found out that I had been awarded a fellowship for graduate school. My husband and I planned a big night out to celebrate. We went to a fancy cocktail bar for drinks, something we couldn’t afford to do regularly. Based on the menu’s description, I chose an Aviation, which I now know is a classic cocktail made with gin, lemon juice, maraschino liqueur, and crème de violette. It arrived in an appropriately fancy glass, a lavender drink with a brandied cherry sitting at its center. I’d never had crème de violette or maraschino liqueur before. They were like nothing I’d ever tasted. All the components of the drink came together into a perfect, harmonic whole. I was converted.
Because we couldn’t afford to go out for drinks often, I decided to try to learn to make good cocktails at home. The Aviation led me toward other classics like the Old Fashioned, Tom Collins, and Pegu Club, as well as to blogs that posted new recipes from local bars. Thanks to those bloggers, I could go out and have a drink I loved, and then find out what was in it and add those things to my bar. My collection of bottles and recipes slowly grew.
I started my own blog, Garnish, in 2015. Since I was trying to learn about spirits and cocktails from scratch, and since I was finding other blogs so helpful in the process, I thought it could be interesting to document the process and try to put the information out there for other people to find. I began working my way through different ingredients and classic cocktails, posting recipes and photos and researching the history of each drink. I found it fascinating—often more fascinating than my actual graduate school research! Nothing makes a cocktail more enjoyable than understanding how it connects you to the past.
To really understand the concept of craft cocktails,
you have to start in the 1800s. Today’s trends have their roots in this period, and there’s an effort to emulate and venerate it in many ways—as is evidenced by the current stereotype of the suspender-clad, bearded bartender.
Prior to the nineteenth century, it wasn’t the fashion to order individual cocktails. Instead, drinkers would order a bowl of punch to share at their own table that a bartender would mix up behind the scenes. This changed in the early days of the United States. In colonial times, people didn’t just drink at taverns in the evening—they consumed alcohol with sugar and bitters at all times of the day, often for its purported health benefits. These individual health tonics evolved into the cocktails we know and love today. And with them, an entire culture of bars and bartending arose, a distinctly American innovation. Much of what we know about this period comes from a famous and flamboyant bartender named Jerry Thomas, who wrote a bartender’s guide called How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant’s Companion in 1862. It contains the first known printed recipes for many drinks.
Jerry Thomas ushered in a golden era of cocktails, when many recipes that are now classics were first created and served. This lasted until Prohibition, which drove America’s cocktail culture underground. Though this is now romanticized by modern speakeasies and a love for Prohibition-era style, the craft cocktail never really recovered. The rest of the twentieth century was a time of vodka, pre-packaged mixers, and chain restaurant bars. It’s an era that is often referred to as the cocktail’s dark ages.
But like the medieval dark ages, this one was followed by a renaissance. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, big names like Dale DeGroff, David Wondrich, and Jeff Berry began