Welcome Friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark today we're going to do a
non-alcoholic cocktail out of this book
called drinks by Jacques Straub in
published in 1914.
um very important cocktail book and sort
of interspersed amongst all of the
alcoholic recipes are a bunch of
non-alcoholic cocktails in order to
please all of your guests but there is
one specific section and I'm going to
use that today called punches
non-alcoholic and so we're going to do
something called the ginger ale punch
seems pretty straightforward but it
sounds like uh it might be pretty tasty
so let's get to it so I'm gonna make two
cocktails and I'm going to make it in
one Shaker it calls for the juice of
half a lemon so this is the juice of a
whole lemon that I just squeezed
so I'm gonna say that half a lemon is
roughly equivalent to one ounce of lemon
juice so I put two ounces in now it
calls for the juice of half an orange
and I'm making two so I'll put this in
just do I just Juiced an orange
um
about two ounces in half an orange
depends on the orange depends how big
the Orange is depends what type of
orange all of those things it's going to
change that's where I really prefer to
have actual measurements
now it just says to put in as much
grenadine as you think you'll like and
since I've never had this before I'm at
a complete loss but I'm going to try for
this a half ounce of grenadine and this
is our homemade grenadine you can find
that video Elsewhere on the channel
now we ice it so ice
and Shake
and now I'm supposed to strain into a
goblet filled with ice so
see if we can break it between two
goblets
hey Jules hey Glenn hey friends Okay so
one more thing okay oh my goodness where
under do these glasses we're even hiding
these glasses is really my question oh
my goodness I don't right so it asks for
a split
of ginger ale
split it's
there is a definition so is it like this
the definition of a dash which is like
three shakes of a blah blah blah so when
you're talking about wine or champagne
it's the half bottle so a full bottle of
champagne is 750 ml so half of that
whatever that is okay
um when they're talking about this or
alcohol so this is ginger ale a split is
187 milliliters okay or so not quite as
big as this six ounces six I think it's
probably six us ounces and that's 187
was hold on 187 milliliters was supposed
to go in this in a goblet is not quite
big enough no so I chose a goblin I'm
thinking that's a goblet but apparently
uh
so there used to be a club in Toronto
way back called Fresh yes oh that then
became it became a whole bunch of things
that was the warehouse anyway so back
when it was fresh
you could go in there
back when it was fresh the alcohol laws
in Ontario meant that you couldn't sell
alcohol unless you sold food yeah they
had a midnight Buffet so they had about
looking for a bigger
gobletion here they didn't they didn't
charge you for the food they gave the
food away because they had to serve food
in order to sell the alcohol anyway long
story short
they used to sell cocktails in fish
bowls yes
that is probably what I needed visible
for this well let's give it a try and if
it needs a little more sweetness we'll
just get a bigger oh careful
that's pretty good it is really good the
ginger the ginger beer really pulls that
together nicely yeah whatever it is it's
kind of a strange color but you know
yeah the color isn't great
I actually don't know that it needs any
more ginger beer
I actually like it just like that yeah I
I would so if I make this again
I feel like the flavor would be not as
bold although with what with if you had
more ginger beer in there yes
um I ditched the Goblet and I would just
serve this straight up in a high ball
um
that's really good that's got a really
good mix of flavors doesn't it puts the
whole thing together okay so this is a
winner
um does it say to garnish probably does
say the garnish I'm gonna say maraschino
cherry maybe it's like a mint dressing
dress with fruit and serve with two or
three sprigs of mint on top yeah so
dress this to make it look fancy
um the flavor is fantastic yeah or you
know I think if you serve this to anyone
at a party who wasn't drinking they
would really enjoy it
okay so thanks for stopping by I'm
enjoying this
we'll see you next time