A tribute to our Mothers with a special garden fresh cocktail, The Sweet Basil.
These drinks feature citrus juice in a starring role. The juice is usually lemon or lime, sometimes grapefruit, and includes orange juice is usually more sweet. Sours are typically single-serving drinks, as opposed to some larger-scale punches that they may greatly resemble, and are usually shaken in a cocktail shaker and served straight up.
Sour drinks tend to break down into a couple of subcategories: Simple Sours, made with a base spirit, citrus juice and sugar (sometimes egg white is added for body and foam), such as a Whiskey Sour or a Daiquiri; and Complex Sours, in which the sugar is substituted in whole or in part by syrups, liqueurs and/or fortified wines; examples include the Clover Club, the Margarita, the Sidecar, the Corpse Reviver #2, the Last Word and the Cosmopolitan. Category description by Paul Clarke, Serious Eats
Sours
Rhubarb Gimlet
The ubiquitous rhubarb gets a lot of play in spring cocktails. It is suggested as a mimosa, margarita, rhubarb martini (don’t go there),spritz, or alpenglow (which isn’t half bad). This application is tasty and helps use up the exuberant abundance of the plant.