Classic Cocktails Done Well: Tried-and-True Recipes for the Home Bartender

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Perfect your home-bartending game and learn to mix 75 classic cocktails with ease and confidence.

You don’t need an overpriced and overstuffed home bar to make timeless and delicious cocktails. Classic Cocktails Done Well equips you with the tools and techniques you need to build a streamlined bar and mix well-balanced drinks—all from the comfort of your own home!

Cocktail aficionado Faith Hingey provides you with recipes for 75 historic, iconic, and easy-to-make cocktails, complete with photos and handy advice that ensure you’ll make them perfectly. With this essential cocktail recipe book, you’ll be shaking and stirring up the classics from negronis and Manhattans to mint juleps and French 75s—and impressing your guests—in no time.

Simple ingredients, 75 classic cocktails. Master the martini, fine-tune your old fashioned, and perfect your paloma with just a few carefully curated core spirits, liqueurs, and everyday ingredients.Master core bartending techniques. Learn to shake, muddle, and prepare garnishes like a pro with tried-and-true bartending tips and tricks.Curate your home bar. Set yourself up for cocktail success with helpful advice on selecting the proper glassware, which bottles to stock, and the perfect drink to serve for any occasion.Beautiful color photos for every recipe. So you’ll know exactly what your drink should look like.

From the Publisher

Master Core Bartending Techniques

With tried-and-true bartending tips and tricks.

Curate Your Home Bar

Helpful advice on selecting the proper glassware, which bottles to stock, and the perfect drink to serve for any occasion.

Beautiful Color Photos for Every Recipe

So you’ll know exactly what your drink should look like.

Try Your Hand at Making a Negroni

Ingredients

· 1 ounce gin

· 1 ounce Campari

· 1 ounce sweet vermouth

· ½ slice of orange

Directions

1. Fill a rocks glass with ice or one large cube.

2. In a mixing glass, combine the gin, Campari, and vermouth, then fill the mixing glass 3/4 full with ice. Stir for 40 seconds.

3. Strain into the ice-filled rocks glass, place the slice of orange inside the glass.

Modern Twist: Create a Strawberry Negroni by using strawberry-infused Campari. Fill a jar with sliced strawberries, then top off with Campari. Fill a jar with sliced strawberries, then top off with Campari. After a few days at room temperature, strain the mixture to remove all solids. If well strained, this will keep in the refrigerator for two to three months.

Tools Rocks glass Mixing glass Jigger Bar spoon Strainer

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zeitgeist (November 1, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 059343594X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593435946
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.035 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.22 x 0.71 x 8.28 inches