A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT COCKTAIL

To Drink or Not To Drink, THAT Is The Question!
Back in Shakespeare's day, the Elizabethan period, most people drank ale or wine all day long. Why? Because the water was not safe to drink. Fermentation kills bacteria , thus, if you wanted to live to see one of Shakespeare's plays you didn't drink the non-potable water, you drank booze. The most popular wine of the era was a spiced, fermented honey wine called mead. Often fruits were added to the fermentation process as well.
You can make your own mead or be lazy like me and buy some. It's not really that hard to find as mead has made a comeback in today's cocktail world.  I bought mine online, Chaucers Mead, at BevMo.
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness." ~ William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene I
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S COCKTAIL
INGREDIENTS: 3 Oz. Mead Slash of Soda 1/2 Oz Fresh Lemon Juice 1/2 Oz Fresh Orange Juice 1 Teaspoon Honey Ridge Farms Honey Créme Spiced 1 Teaspoon Hot Water Cup of Crushed Ice
Garnish: Fresh Raspberries, Orange Wheel, Lemon Slice
Tools: Bar spoon
Glass: Old Fashioned
DIRECTIONS: Thin the spiced honey with the hot water. Fill your glass to the top with crushed ice. Pour in the mead, lemon and orange juices, give the cocktail a quick stir then top off with the soda. Pile on the fresh raspberries, add the lemon and orange garnishes to the rim then drizzle the honey over the raspberries and serve.
"Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead. By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook. Or in the beachèd margent of the sea. To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind." ~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer's Night Dream

Updated 4-2017

PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY

CHERRY CHEESECAKE MARTINI COCKTAIL

What's a piece of cheesecake without some cherries on top? If you're going to go for cheesecake go for broke and add those cherries.

If you really want to go for broke make this Cherry Cheesecake Cocktail instead and drink your dessert!

The CHERRY CHEESECAKE MARTINI
INGREDIENTS: 1 Oz Cherry Vodka 1 Oz Cake Vodka 1 Oz Cherry Juice 1/4 Oz Lemon Juice 1 Oz Heavy Cream
Garnish: Honey Sweetened Whipped Cream Cheese, Red Sprinkles, Homemade Maraschino Cherry
Tools: Baggie, Small plate, Cocktail shaker
DIRECTIONS: Put some of the whipped cream cheese in the baggie near one corner. Twist the baggie, pushing the cream cheese towards the corner then clip a small hole in that corner to create a piping bag. Pour the red sprinkles onto a small plate. Pipe the cream cheese on the rim of your glass then dip into the red cake sprinkles (jimmies). Chill the glass in the freezer. Add the ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until chilled. Strain the cocktail into your chilled glass, garnish with the cherry and serve.
National Cherry Cheesecake Day is April 23rd.
VOICEOVER VIDEO WITH INGREDIENTS AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE CHERRY CHEESECAKE MARTINI:

Updated 4-2021 PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY