hello i am helen come and join me for a fabulous cocktail adventure where it's all about making
some cocktails at home and having some fun together and we're going to have some fun today
with the east indian cocktail i found this recipe in my fabulous little book called around the world
in 80 cocktails i've done a few from this one so far now there's not a lot of history for the east
indian no one really knows who created it but it was first appeared in print in around 1882
by harry johnson who is bartender and he wrote that this particular cocktail the east indian
was one of the favorites of the british who were living in that indian area at the time
so let's have a look at our ingredients we have five ingredients we have a beautiful
orange bitters now you can use a normal bitter that's fine i've made here a homemade
pineapple gum syrup so easy to make and it's really really delicious and you can have a
little look up there how i made that we have a cognac and a triple sec i've got a curaçao
here the clear triple sec one and the last ingredient is a maraschino liqueur and i have the
luxardo one here today so let's make it our cocktail today but what we're going to do today
is build it into a jug and put some ice in and give it a stir so again that is our method today
is actually a stir so let's put our ingredients let's build them in first one we'll use the
cognac first which is 60 mil which i'm led to believe is two ounces so let's put in two ounces
of our cognac oh it always smells delicious cognac just glorious there we go 30 and
another 30 that's 60. then we want let's see two dashes of our orange
bitters a couple of dashes there we go and we have five mil of our
pineapple gum well i wish you could smell that because it really is delicious i was
really really happy how this turned out five mil which is one teaspoon i'm not sure what
that is in ounces sorry guys someone can let me know five ml of that and five mil of the curaçao
triple sec here once again not sure of the ounce but one tablespoon equals five mil
oh i'm getting a bit messy and then a couple or two dashes of our beautiful
maraschino liqueur a couple of dashes what i might do is such a big bottle i'm going
to put a little bit in my spoon and then do my dash from the spoon one two there we go
a few dashes there there we have it now we're going to add some ice and give it a stir
nice ice ice there we go
beautiful there's our ice and let's give this one a stir guys let's stir this up butter cup
oh it's all about the fun isn't it making cocktails just love it stir this up buttercup
if you don't have a stirring jug at home you can see Im actually
using a coffee plunger jug just use any jug you've got at home
up all right that is a lovely stir and
our glass today we're going to use is a coupe glass and i've already put some fabulous garnish
on it is a cocktail that originates from india so i've put a little bit of bling i've blinged
up the garnish we have some maraschino cherries some beautiful little triangles of pineapple
and some beautiful fabulous bling on the end there so let's just use our
and strain in our beautiful cocktail
and at this point you can decide whether you want to put in ice in your cocktail here because i live
in queensland in australia and it's coming to summer i am going to put a little bit of ice in
but as i said that's your own personal choice so let's put a little bit of ice there we go
the favorite part of the show for me the taste test let's give it a taste wow if you
love cognac you are really going to love this i personally think i actually like it as it is now
there's a lot of cognac in there you get a little bit of that i'm getting a little bit of the
orange bitters i can i can taste a little bit of pineapple personally for my own tastes i believe
i think i would actually up my pineapple gum syrup probably put another 10 5 or 10 ml in
not quite sure i reckon that might just be perfect for my taste buds this is what i love though about
cocktails because you just make them to what works for your own taste buds if you've enjoyed today's
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five ingredients in today's cocktail we have a beautiful orange
what are they called bitters pineapple gum syrup some cognac some triples well
i've got some triple sec curaçao here cura ca cao curaçao curaçao curaçao
i mean it is a cocktail that originates from china oh from china oh my gosh