Welcome to Booze On The Rocks, where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We're going to make a launder.
Now you can find this cocktail in here, the PDT Cocktail
book by Jim Meehan, and you can find it at the bottom of page 162.
Now, this was created by Sean Horde, and he created this in 2010
and it gives off the flavors of summertime and spring
and reminds him of when he was younger and a child.
Now the lawn dart itself kind of also harkened back to
when I was a kid,
when you used to play with these big seven inch steel darts with plastic
and you'd throw them up into the air and people would get hurt.
Mostly because kids are stupid.
You're going to throw them up and try and catch them or hit your friend with them.
Having said that, that is why the game was banned.
But it's not why this cocktail was banned because the cocktail hasn't been banned.
It's a shaken cocktail.
So grab you're shaking cocktail, put it off to the side
and you're going to start with your first ingredient.
Now we need some green pepper.
So what we will do is using ourselves, we will push the core down,
then cut the sides open and cut out a five inch strip of green pepper
and put that into the glass.
After
that, you need some lime juice to grab yourself A lime.
Give it a bit of a roll.
And what we'll do is cut this in half, measure it three quarters of an ounce
or 22 and a half mil.
Just drop that into the glass.
The third degree that we're going to use is our sweetener.
Now, you could do this with simple sirup if you don't have any agave sirup.
However, the recipe recommends agave sirup, and for that we're going to need
a total of three quarters of an ounce or 22 and a half milliliters.
We're now going to interrupt our steps of actually
putting things into the glass because we're going to muddle our green pepper
and you just want to muddle it solidly three or four times.
Now, one of the things that will happen is it will be even more pulverized
as soon as you add and shake a little bit of ice with it.
But our next ingredient is green shark truth.
We don't eat a lot.
And this will give us that herbal note that'll make us think of summer fields
and flowers.
And we're going to use a quarter of an ounce or seven and a half million.
Your next ingredient
is gin, and we're using a London style dry gin.
I'm using Hayman's. It's 41.2%.
Use whatever dry style gin you prefer.
Just remember that the alcohol value will be anywhere between 40 to 45%,
but you're going to use one ounce, which works out
to 30 milliliters.
The next ingredient that we're going to use is tequila.
And for this we are going to use a blanco tequila a.k.a a silver tequila.
I'm using catadores. It's 40% abv.
We're going to use the same amount of one ounce,
which works out to 30 milliliters.
Next, what we're going to do is fill this with ice and you want to fill
the glass up all of the way and you really want to shake this hard.
We want to make sure that we shake it as if we're throwing a large, dark
and we're trying to get little Timmy next door who is our best friend,
because, you know, we're playing that game, right?
So shake it
like you want to make it a little, give a flick and smile.
All right, Pop that off.
With the strength of a thousand green peppers.
Put it off to the side and grab yourself your glass of choice.
In this case, I'm going to serve it in a nice, tall style glass.
And we're going to fill this with fresh eyes.
And you just want to take it all the way up to the top like so.
And what we will also do is find strainers to keep out
any chunks of green pepper or lime pulp.
Look at that color.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Garnish this with a lime wheel and then grab yourself a steel straw,
Throw it into the drink like you're throwing a dart into the lawn
and give it a try.
Hmm. Really good.
It actually does taste grassy.
You get a little bit of that pepper and the lime juice working together.
It's a slight lee sweet and it's herbal.
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