The drinks and cocktails make up social life. Arguably, every decade has its particular drink or cocktail.
Below is a selection of recipes from some of the most popular drinks and cocktails that you can incorporate in your new year parties.
Bloody Mary
They say it was invented in 1920 by Ferdinand Petiot, a famous New York barman.
Ingredients: (2 people)
1 ½ cup tomato juice
A few drops of Worcestershire sauce
1 / 2 lemon squeezed
1 cup of Vodka
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Preparation:
Mix tomato juice with lemon in a jar. Stir well and Porl ice cubes. Then add the vodka and season with salt and pepper to taste. Best served very cold.
Cuba Libre
This long drink was invented at the end of the Cuban revolution, but today might seem paradoxical to his name. Also known as Cubata.
Ingredients:
1 part golden rum
Coca Cola.
Slice and lemon drops.
Ice
Preparation:
Fill a tall glass with ice cubes, then add the rum and lemon juice. Mix well and fill with coca-cola. Garnish with a lemon slice.
Gin and tonic
This drink is said to have medicinal origins of quinine as present in the aguaquina was used to prevent tropical diseases.
Ingredients:
A measure of Geneva
1 / 2 slice of lemon
Tonic Water (aguaquina)
Preparation:
Put the ice in the cup or glass will, then squeeze the lemon peel. Add the gin and stir to cool cocktail. Once this is added and mixed tonic water with a long bar spoon.
Manhattan
It is unknown author and no other cocktail in the world to identify a city. It is a cocktail drink that is taken into shot glass with three ice.
Ingredients:
2.5 ml of whiskey
2.5 ml of vermounth
A narrow jet
Ice cubes
1-2 cherries
Preparation:
Mix the drink with crushed ice and stir well. Add a cherry for garnish.
