My favorite mixed drink recipe... (ingredients, sugar, powder, juice)

[firebll31]

Please share your favorite mixed drink recipes...it's almost time for cocktail parties by the pool!
My personal favorite is called a "rattlesnake"-sweet, almost like an amaretto sour but with more "kick":

1 1/2 oz Southern Comfort
1 1/2 oz Amaretto
2 1/2 oz Sweet and Sour mix
Splash of Grenadine

Mix together in a shaker, pour over ice in a rocks glass. Can also be made in a pitcher, just stir well before pouring over ice. Makes us ladies VERRRY friendly!

[BlueWillowPlate]

Whoa, Firebll, that sounds wicked.

I don't drink too many mixed drinks, but when summertime rolls around, my absolute favorite is the mojito. Supposedly this was Ernest Hemingway's drink in Cuba.
Mojitos are so refreshing, but I really have to be careful, they go down too easy. Sometimes I just ask for a really weak one, or if I am making one for myself, I barely put any rum at all.

There seem to be a couple different recipes, but this one is what we do:
INGREDIENTS:

* A collins (or highball) glass
* A muddler (or long-handled spoon)
* Crushed ice
* 2 oz fresh lime juice
* 4-12 mint leaves with stems
* 2 oz white rum (preferably at least 3 years old)
* 2 oz club soda
* 1 tsp powdered sugar
* 1 spring of mint

PREPARATION:

1. Put the mint leaves and the sugar in the bottom of the collins glass. Use the muddler (or the back of the spoon, if you don't have a muddler), to slightly crush the mint leaves. It should take about half a minute for the smell of mint to reach you.

2.Add the rum and the lime juice. Mix again using either the muddler or the spoon.

3. Fill the glass with crushed ice.

4. Stir in the club soda.

5. Use the spring of mint as garnish.

6. NOTE: It's said that the majority of people like adding a dash of Angostura bitters to the mojito mixture. The bitters, though, were not part of the Bodeguita del Medio's mojito recipe that Hemingway drank.

[Paula Lynn]

"Strip and go Naked" (makes 2 drinks)

In a pitcher put:

2 shots Sweet n Sour
1 shot Vodka or Gin
1/2 shot Cherry Flavored Brandy
1/2 shot Grenadine
1 - 12 oz. can Lite Beer

Put ice in tall glass & pour (use 2 straws)

Cheers!!

[jdavid93225]

Well, I have a friend that wanted to make a screwdriver one time while we were having a get together at my place. The problem was that I didn't have any orange juice, and I also didn't have any vodka. I came up with the closest things that I had, and when we put them together, we decided that, since it made a very screwed up screwdriver, we would call it the "Screwup."

What we used in place of vodka was brandy. In place of orange juice, we used Tang. When mixed together, it was actually quite tasty, and it became the drink of choice in our group for quite a while. It's funny the things you come up with when it involves the consumption of alcohol, isn't it?

[burdell]

Originally Posted by jdavid93225

Well, I have a friend that wanted to make a screwdriver one time while we were having a get together at my place. The problem was that I didn't have any orange juice, and I also didn't have any vodka. I came up with the closest things that I had, and when we put them together, we decided that, since it made a very screwed up screwdriver, we would call it the "Screwup."

What we used in place of vodka was brandy. In place of orange juice, we used Tang. When mixed together, it was actually quite tasty, and it became the drink of choice in our group for quite a while. It's funny the things you come up with when it involves the consumption of alcohol, isn't it?

For me it was Seagrams Seven and Cherry Kool-Aid, the only things we had available one night many years ago

[jdhall1]

I make the 'Code Red Special'
10 Ounces of Mountain Dew Code Red..cold
3 shots of Parrott Bay Coconut Rum
Stir and enjoy. It goes down and you can hardly taste the booze

[lilypad]

White Russian: 1/2 and 1/2, Kahlua, vodka, and something else don't remember.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by lilypad

White Russian: 1/2 and 1/2, Kahlua, vodka, and something else don't remember.

A little milk,cream, or half & half depending on how rich you'd like it.

I like Black Russians made with 2/3 vodka and 1/3 Kahlua.

[lilypad]

If I can't get a White Russian, will take a Black Russian.

[firebll31]

Originally Posted by jdavid93225

Well, I have a friend that wanted to make a screwdriver one time while we were having a get together at my place. The problem was that I didn't have any orange juice, and I also didn't have any vodka. I came up with the closest things that I had, and when we put them together, we decided that, since it made a very screwed up screwdriver, we would call it the "Screwup."

What we used in place of vodka was brandy. In place of orange juice, we used Tang. When mixed together, it was actually quite tasty, and it became the drink of choice in our group for quite a while. It's funny the things you come up with when it involves the consumption of alcohol, isn't it?

"Desperate times call for desperate measures". Don't know who first said that, but it seems appropriate!