Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and today we are going to put a
twist on the classic lemon drop.
Let's get into it.
Right.
It's great to have every single one of you back here today, we are making
a raspberry lemon drop martini.
Now the original lemon drop martini was invented in the 1970s at a time of
concentrated juices and bottled juices.
However, in the eighties, The idea of cocktails began to
change with such notables as Dick Brad cell and Dale DeGroff.
And they did that by adding fresh fruits to their cocktails.
So, what we're going to do is take that original lemon drop, add
fresh fruit and come up with one of the best variation of a raspberry
lemon drop that I've ever tried.
So let's get into this.
The first thing you need is your glass.
And I'm so used to doing it that way, that I'm gonna put this off to
the side, because what you really need is a plate of some sugar.
And the first your lemon, grab your knife and chop your lemon in half.
And trust me, this is important that we're going to do this.
Grab your martini glass.
Now it doesn't have to be marching you glass.
It can be whatever you want.
It could be a Mason glass for all you care.
So take your lemon and gently rub it on the outside of the red, not the inside the
outside, and then roll your glass slowly.
So we get a really nice sugar rim.
Look at that.
Now put that off to the side, your glasses ready, but these over here
for later, because you'll need them.
I guarantee it, move this, grab your glass.
And now you can grab six raspberries.
Now that you've done that grabbing model and just gently press down and muddle.
And the reason I say gently is because the ice will continue to do the rest
of the work while we shake this.
Now you're going to use your vodka of choice in this
case, I'm using Tito's vodka.
A lot of the vodkas that you'll see in many of the recipes are a citrus
vodka, but I don't want to do that.
What I want is the actual fresh fruit to speak for themselves and we
need two ounces or 60 milliliters.
Yes.
Now the next thing that we'll use is some triple sec.
These will give us the.
Orange says that we want have an orange liqueur, but it'll also bump
that sweetness just a little bit.
And we're going to use three quarters of an ounce or 22 and a half millimeters and
try and get the lid back on next.
You want some simple syrup and it seems counter-intuitive.
So we're adding simple syrup to something that we've sugared the rim on, but
trust me, it'll work out it'll balance.
I promise.
And you need half an ounce or 15.
Now we're going to go back to this lemon.
And what we'll do is we're going to squeeze,
an ounce a half and after the half work, so two 45 milliliters.
Very nice, but this over here, because we don't need that.
Now next you're going to have some ice and we're going to shake this for a good
10 to 15 seconds and we want to shake it.
Good and hard because we're going to, what we're going to do is we're going
to break up the raspberry a little bit.
And this will spread the color and bring out that tartness and
sweetness of the raspberry all at once and shake it with a smile.
All right, pop that open with the strengths of a thousand raspberries.
Not that you need a thousand raspberries for this.
And what you're going to do is you're going to come back,
grab your glass of choice.
And we're going to find strain this in here, because we want to keep
out the little chunks of raspberry.
Look at that.
Perfect.
Take one.
Raspberry.
What we'll do is we'll just give it a little bit of a cut on the edge here.
We will slide that on like, so, and here we have, you know what?
Don't put that on there.
Doesn't look like we have a raspberry lemon drop martini.
Well, it smells really good.
You immediately get those hints of raspberry, which you think
would be held down by the 11 Jews.
Oh, that is so good.
It's tart and sweet.
At the same time, you get the lemon, you get the hints of raspberry and it blends
together really, really well with that sugar rim, it just draws it all together.
Oh,
Oh yes.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to put the ingredients and a
method of how to make this down in the description down below.
If you think I should use a different type of vodka.
A different orange look here, or even different types of fruits to change this
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Angel a little bit here, there.
And if you wait, go to the video, so you're going to grab your shaking
glass and then you're going to throw in about six strawberries.