Cocktails at home: the original way to show imagination

Cocktails experts call beverages, which according to the rules are mixed by not more than five ingredients, not counting the many additional components in small doses. Cocktail - this is freedom of creativity and flight of imagination not only professional bartenders, but also any cook who wants to please his delicious and original dish with his family or his friends.

To create cocktails at home, you need to remember: their composition is so diverse that no bartender can replicate all existing recipes during life. However, there are several products that are almost always part of the original drinks - first of all it is ice, made from water purified or non-carbonated, transparent, without bubbles, foreign flavors and smells. The second ingredient used to make a large number of cocktails, experts consider sugar syrup - everyone can cook it by himself, dissolving a kilogram of sugar in a liter of boiling water.

In addition to products for those who want to learn how to prepare cocktails at home, you will also need to use special equipment - not as difficult as the professional technique of the bar, but, nevertheless, convenient and useful. You will need a mixer and shaker, a measuring vessel and a bar stainer, as well as good utensils - glasses of various sizes and shapes, spoons and spoons, a board, knives for slicing and cleaning fruit, a wooden pestle for stretching mint or other herbs, and a press Or an ice splitting machine.

Beginners in the bar business believe that making alcoholic cocktails at home is easy. In fact, this process is certainly not complex, but requires certain skills, understanding of proportions, accuracy in measurements and diligence in mixing. Therefore, to take immediately for the virtuosic multi-tiered structures that you saw in your favorite bar is not worth: to start better with something more elementary: for example, from the cocktail "Cosmopolitan". This drink is uncomplicated, but extremely original, due to which it has won world popularity. Many celebrate an attractive appearance - they serve Cosmopolitan in martini glasses, many - its amazing taste, but you can evaluate one or the other, only by preparing a cocktail yourself. So, for the preparation of the drink you will need: lemon vodka (50 ml.), Liqueur Cointreau (20 ml.), Lemon juice (10 ml.) And cranberry juice (30 ml.). All the ingredients must be mixed, poured into a glass and decorated with a slice of lemon.

If you want to please your friends with something original and tasty, you can prepare some famous cocktails at home, for example, the famous "Vesper Martini", which James Bond, the hero of the novel cycle of Ian Fleming , preferred to give . For the drink you need: martini (50 ml.), Vodka (50 ml.), Gin (150 ml.) And liqueur "Lillet" (50 ml). All ingredients are poured into the shaker in turn, filled with crushed ice and shaken (not mixed). Ready Bond drink is poured into a wine glass or a glass and is decorated with a spiral of lemon.

A very popular product and such a product as a milkshake at home. You can cook it for yourself if you want something delicious, or for children, to vary the daily breakfast, and also make any birthday unique. For such a drink should take care of fresh fruits (bananas, oranges, lemons), yoghurt (30 ml.) And milk (100 ml.). Two bananas should be cleaned beforehand, cut into several parts and cooled. In the blender, pour out the milk, yogurt, freshly squeezed lemon juice (1 tsp) and chilled bananas. Ready mix, whipped to a thick foam, you can pour into glasses, decorate with orange slices or ice cream balls according to the preferences of a small taster. This drink, like all other cocktails at home, should be supplemented with a straw.