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by Harold Almon
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Something to drink with alcohol from a frugal bar can be a signature spirit drink selected to be associated with each event. In a private home, and or where appropriate, drinks suggestions may include alcohol items, but the choices are to be limited to three for cocktails that you or a guest can make using simple recipes. Get spirits where and when they are on sale. You can make and have recipe cards available tented and set next to each spirit. Suggestions may be
Beer: (a current favorite local or foreign,) or a Double Bock. You could make Beer Margaritas: What to do:
Place 12 ounces each of frozen limeade, tequila, water, and beer, added to ice in a large pitcher. Stir until blended well. Dilute with water to taste. Garnish each glass with a lime wedge. You might serve
Orange Beer: Beer and Orange Juice or
Red Beer: Beer and Tomato Juice. You can serve
Champagne alone or Champagne and something. Champagne and Orange Juice (OJ), or a sparkling wine and OJ: Cava or Prosecco and OJ equal a Mimosa. A mimosa does not require real Champagne. For Holidays festive drinks can include a Kir: a sparkling wine to which a teaspoon of Crème de Cassis (blackberry currant liqueur) has been added.
The variation made with real Champagne is called a Kir Royale. You can leave this to the Royals.
You may try soaking a sugar cube in Cointreau (orange liqueur) and dropping it into a flute of Champagne. Try it on yourself before giving it to your guest; you may decide you like it fine or that it is “a waste of good wine.” A popsicle in a glass with sparkling wine can be a spritzer.
A drink can be served with (something added) a splash or neat (without ice.) The same spirit drink can be used in more than one cocktail. For real old school cocktails you could use Gin; you will also need Dubonnet, and Club soda. Cocktails here can be a Gin and Vodka (old school,)
Dubonnet and Gin: Za Za
Gin and Soda: Gin and Club soda
Gin and Juice: Gin and Orange Juice or a
Gintini: (Gin Martini) Gin and Vermouth
You can serve a Bloody Mary: 1 part Vodka, 3 part Bloody Mary Mix, Screwdriver: Vodka and Orange Juice and , or a Margarita: Vodka and Margarita Mix.
You can make a Bloody Mary Mix: What to do:
1 quart vegetable juice cocktail, ¼ teaspoon, granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice, ¼ teaspoons black pepper, 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder, ¼ hot pepper sauce, and 2 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce.
You can make Chi Chi What to do, 4 ounces Vodka, 2 ounces crème de coconut, 4 ounces of pineapple juice, and 2 cups crushed ice. Blend, strain, and serve. OK now make two more. You may make a John Daley: Vodka, Lemonade and Ice Tea.
For a Martini you can use Gin (a London-dry style) or Vodka and Vermouth, or for a Mexican Martini you may use Tequila: Mazatlan and Cointreau, or blanco or reposado for a margarita.
You could serve red wine. Serve Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, or Cotes De Rhone as is or as a cooler. You can use the cork screw faced away from you to score the foil just below the lip at the top of the wine bottle. Then use the tip of the cork screw to lift the foil cap from the bottom and discard it. You can use wax paper to cover the cork prior to placing it back in the bottle.
You can take some wine, if only for your stomach sake, just ask Timothy. Red wine too may be good for your blood and your body.
In public, learn to love an alcoholic drink that is routinely included among the reduced price specials.
Something added to a drink may be fruit: Lemon, Lime, Maraschino Cherry, Orange or an Olive, or a vegetable: V8®, organic celery, or cocktail onions, or salt; more than that – get a license.
After the first round, each cocktail can be pre-mixed in a pitcher or dispenser and set atop a holding tray, or made by a guest.
To be truly frugal you can serve a California Punch or a Hawaiian Punch. You engine search and find more than one recipe for each one.
- “Know that your drink can cost you in calories and weight, “A pint is a pound the world around,” only some pints are calorie free.
- Avoid drinking away your calorie allocation for the day.
- Avoid drinking anything that can react adversely with any medication you take. Engine search your question, “Can I drink alcohol and take (this) medication. You can call your pharmacist or doctor to ask for confirmation.
- Avoid alcohol poisoning. Above 21 choose where, when, with whom you drink alcohol. Post a note: when anyone is non-responsive get to a hospital. Sleeping it off can lead to not waking up. Avoid DWI. Have a plan on how to drink and not have to drive.
- If you drink have a snack or cocktail food to reduce blood sugar fluctuations, intoxication, and to make the drink last longer.
For each event you give, plan to have a cocktail period. Avoid extremes of Northern hospitality: where you give all one could want to drink but nothing to eat, or Southern Hospitality: where you give you all the food one might want to eat, but reserve real drinks for “Family.
In public, when a cash bar is present. A free drink ticket or two can be provided by a host for each honored but underemployed guest.
Drinks may be provided from a tray which is bare, a counter, or from a table.