(Cocktails inspired by the movies, Oscar nominees and winners.)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 1972
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee
Nominated (1972) for: Best Picture, Best Director (Stanley Kubrik), Best Writing, Screenplay (Stanley Kubrik), and Best Film Editing (Bill Butler).
Just before the Oscars every year I try to come up with a new movie themed drink. I rarely relate them to the current Oscar contenders, preferring to stick with movie classics, mostly because the puns have better possibilities and I am a huge old movie cinemaphile.
This year my punny play is on the cult SciFi movie classic A Clockwork Orange. Despite most people thinking the story was written by Stanley Kubrik, the movie is based on the 1962 futuristic, morality novel by Anthony Burgess. Like the book, Kubrick's vision is a dark, disturbing story of aimless youth gone terribly wrong in a weary socialist state, but it is a cinematically beautiful one that I admire for the visuals while cringing at the violence. I have to be in just the right head space to watch this film but the title is just too good not to booze pun.
This cocktail movie pun is a loosely based adaptation of a Bourbon Crusta which is a bourbon version of a Brandy Crusta, a mid 1899's cocktail invented in New Orleans by a gentleman named Joseph Santini. The only relationship to the movie is the addition of the blood orange and the possibility of ending up talking like Alex if you have too many.
"Well, well, well! Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!"
Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
The
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
CRUSTA
INGREDIENTS
2 Oz. Four Roses Bourbon
1 Tsp. Cointreau
1 Tsp. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
1 Tbsp. Fresh Blood Orange Juice
1 Tsp. Blood Orange Honey Creme Syrup*
1 Dash Orange Bitters
Ice
Large Ice Cubes
Tools: Large Ice Cube Molds, Cocktail Shaker, Strainer
Glass: Old Fashioned
Garnish: Sugar Rim, Blood Orange Curl, Sugar Dipped Blood Orange Suprême (Segment)
DIRECTIONS
* Prepare the Blood Orange Honey Creme Syrup by mixing 1 teaspoon of Honey Ridge Farms Blood Orange Honey Creme with 1 teaspoon of hot water.
Pare the full peel off the blood orange, set aside then squeeze the juice from the fruit.
Prep glass by moistening the rim with juice and dipping it in sugar.
Add the large ice cubes to your glass, fit the peel around the inside of the glass, lifting it slightly outside the glass.
Combine the ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake, strain into the ice filled glass, garnish and serve.
“The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.”
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, (Part 1, Chapter 2)
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Since we are smack dab in the middle of Girl Scout Cookie Season, it's probably a good time to share some cocktails I have that are basically drinkable Girl Scout Cookies. If you think the cookie flavors are delicious, just wait until you add some booze.
On my honor, I think you'll enjoy these.
GIRL SCOUT COOKIE
FLAVORED COCKTAILS
Yes, I do have a cocktail recipe that tastes like the newRASPBERRY RALLY.Shake up myRASPBERRY TRIFLE MARTINI
Like Thin Mints? This is the one
TIPSY GIRL SCOUT MARTINI
Or try my
GRASSHOPPER
Here's your drinkable Samoa Cookie
BOOZY SAMOA COCKTAIL SHAKE
Is your favorite the S'mores Inspired Cookie? Drink this
S'MORES COCKTAIL
Love those peanut butter and chocolate Tagalongs? Try my
PEANUT BUTTER CUP MARTINI
How about just the peanut butter Do-SiDos? Sip one of these
PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE MARTINIS
Remember the Toffee-tastic™? Try this
ENGLISH TOFFEE MARTINI
Prefer the Savannah Smiles or Lemonade? Pucker up for this
LEMONADE MARTINI
or shake up one of these
LEMON DROP MARTINIS
Dig those Shortbread Trefoils?
The SUGAR COOKIE MARTINI
Thankful for the Thanks-a-Lots? Mix up this
HOT FUDGE MARTINI
Love the Caramel Chocolate Chip? Try my
CHOCOLATE CARAMEL MARTINI
National Girl Scout Cookie Day is February 8th, Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is typically held the last weekend in February and National Girl Scout Day is March 12th, the day in 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout Troop meeting.
*DYK? The very first published recipe for S'mores (“some mores") appeared in a 1927 publication called "Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts".
Updated 2-2023
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