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Champagne is the basis for many festive New Year's cocktails but is tasty all year long.
New Year's Eve may be over, but New Year's cocktails keep giving. Enjoy these winter concoctions all year long.
Next week, we will explore the world of winter soups and stews. Please send your favorite recipes to [email protected].
PEPPERMINT WHITE RUSSIAN
Submitted by Gene Hayworth
Deceptively simple but delicious on a cold winter night or to ring in the new year!
Ingredients and Directions:
Layer in a pretty glass equal parts:
Kahlua
Vodka
Cream
Peppermint schnapps
PRESBYTERIAN COCKTAIL
Submitted by Karen Sherlock
Courtesy of Rebekah Peppler
Simple but refreshingly delicious. Use whiskey you like to drink, not the brand you save for mixers.
Ingredients:
Ice
1½ ounces rye, Scotch whiskey or bourbon
2 to 3 ounces cold dry ginger ale
2 to 3 ounces cold club soda
Lemon or lime wedge or peel, optional
Directions: Fill a highball glass with ice. Add the whiskey of your choice and top with ginger ale and soda. Garnish with the citrus.
CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL
A classic New Year's party favorite!
Ingredients:
1 sugar cube
2 to 4 dashes Angostura bitters
Champagne (or other sparkling wine), chilled
Lemon twist
Directions:
Place a sugar cube on a spoon and douse with the bitters.
Drop the cube into a chilled Champagne flute.
Fill the glass with Champagne or other sparkling wine.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
FRENCH 75
If you don't like gin, feel free to use your spirit of choice.
Ingredients:
1 ounce good gin
1/2 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce simple syrup (equal parts water and sugar dissolved over heat and then cooled)
3 ounces Champagne (or other sparkling wine)
Lemon twist
Directions:
Add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into a Champagne flute.
Top with the Champagne or sparkling wine of choice.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
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