welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark and today we're going to do a
cocktail out of this little green book
that we've touched on in the past
and as i go through this book i realized
that there are quite a few cocktails in
here that we really enjoyed
so maybe the author who was jimmy late
of ciros in london
maybe jimmy knows what julie and i
actually like so this was published in
1930
here in toronto
other versions of this were published at
the same time
in the united states and in london so
it's not a uniquely canadian book
although this version was published here
so we're going to do something called
the leave it to me
and i've cut the cocktail in half
because i don't think julie and i need a
cocktail each that contains four ounces
of gin
so i'm going to start out with this
angava canadian gin
despite its color
it works really well in cocktails it's
got a really nice flavor in certain
cocktails so we'll find out this time
whether it's any good in this one
and i'm going to use my favorite gin
this dillon's it's a rye based gin
i really like the flavor of it
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okay
now
in each mixing glass
half ounce of lemon juice freshly
squeezed of course
and a half ounce of our homemade
grenadine
and i really like the color and the
flavor of our homemade grenadine it's
really easy to make we've got a video on
that
but if you're using the pre-made stuff
and you like it then go right ahead and
use it
next we're just going to ice these
and
stir
and i've got
two chilled nickel noor glasses so this
is
the angava
and this is the dylan's
hey glenn hey hey friends
so
leave it to me
it's called to leave it to me oh it's
gonna say leave it to you what like
what leave it to me and i'm going to i
was waiting for more in that leave it to
me and i'm going to provide you with a
cocktail why thank you so this is uh
this is gin grenadine and
lemon juice that's really quite a simple
mix of stuff very it's either going to
be just
beautiful yeah or flat
and so i had said
you know it's four four parts one part
one part that's a lot of and you can you
can take that to mean quite literally
four ounces one ounce one ounce
i took it to mean that you really wanted
a three ounce cocktail which fits
perfectly in a nick nora glass and it's
kind of in
1950s is a transitional period on the
size of cocktails they're getting a
little bit bigger they don't get
stupidly big until the 1980s
and then they get stupidly bigger then
they also add a lot of fruit a lot of
others
a lot of other stuff this is this is
just you know meant to be something that
you have a little bit of so let's give
it a go so yeah two ways he's so close
on gava and dylan's okay oh that'll be
interesting because they're very
different they're very different okay
i'd put a little less lemon in it
a little less lemon okay try this one
mhm
i'd love to try it with a little less
lemon because it almost
this one is better
this one balances the lemon better that
one is that
that that lemony flavor is just a little
too strong in that one okay so i like
both of them
and if if anything i kind of prefer this
one this one no but i know what you mean
that one is more that one's more
balanced
all of the flavors are playing nicely
together yeah i think that one would be
fine for me if it was like
half the lemon so quarter ounce of lemon
yeah but in terms of sweetness i think
this the sweetness is nice in both of
them
um
but i
i kind of like this one
i like both of them
again
either of them showed up in front of me
and i would i would have them i might be
a little disappointed in that one a
little less lemon but i think this one i
would certainly enjoy okay let me try
that again what
let me try that again
yeah no okay
let's try something okay
what are we doing this time
okay let's give this a go okay so i'm
gonna put these beside the alcohol of
choice because i can't remember here we
go beef eater
two ounces of beef eater
okay
i'm gonna use the other grenadine
we use the roses grenadine
and you do like a half half lemon
yeah so and i'll oh electric
and i'll do
half the amount of lemon juice
can you get another nicki noir out there
jules yep
i sit down we're not judging this nick
and norah isn't isn't chilled
okay
here we go now
that is not the same color that's kind
of incredible
strainer
okay so this is the agave this is the
dylan's this is the beef eater
give it a go
okay on the nose
i don't get anything
no it doesn't have the same these ones
have a distinct
it's
distinctly sweeter so maybe that one
does need the extra dash of lemon
okay so not only is it sweeter it's
bitter to me
that's this stuff
yeah
okay
so if you don't like grenadine
i don't want to sway you in any way but
if you don't like grenadine and this is
the grenadine that you've been served
maybe you do like grenadine
it's like anything right yeah sometimes
you there's certain flavors you like
there are certain flavors you don't
like and so and a lot of people say i
don't like gin
and a lot of people say i don't like
whiskey or i don't like bourbon or i
don't like
maybe you just haven't explored enough
to find one that that is right for you
this is not right for me
and i know that that is completely down
to this grenadine
i do like this one though i do like this
case
okay so
um
as
the ending of every one of our cocktails
after dark videos
sort of comes to the conclusion of you
need to explore
and you need to find what works for you
and what your combination is and the
combination that other people say is
perfect
might not be perfect for you you just
have to find it you have to look you
have to explore you have to try it i
think i kind of like this one thanks
jimmy
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i just completely messed up the end yeah
that's okay i don't know where you're
going
yeah i don't like that at all
that tastes like cough syrup
is it going bad
no it doesn't go bad can't go bad