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Loading... How to Cocktail: Recipes and Techniques for Building the Best Drinks (original 2019; edition 2019)by America's Test Kitchen (Editor)
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All the kitchen secrets, techniques, recipes, and inspiration you need to craft transcendent cocktails, from essential, canonical classics to imaginative all-new creations from America's Test Kitchen. Cocktail making is part art and part science--just like cooking. The first-ever cocktail book from America's Test Kitchen brings our objective, kitchen-tested and -perfected approach to the craft of making cocktails. You always want your cocktail to be something special--whether you're in the mood for a simple Negroni, a properly muddled Caipirinha, or a big batch of Margaritas or Bloody Marys with friends. After rigorous recipe testing, we're able to reveal not only the ideal ingredient proportions and best mixing technique for each drink, but also how to make homemade tonic for your Gin and Tonic, and homemade sweet vermouth and cocktail cherries for your Manhattan. And you can't simply quadruple any Margarita recipe and have it turn out right for your group of guests--to serve a crowd, the proportions must change. You can always elevate that big-batch Margarita, though, with our Smoked Rim Salt or Sriracha Rim Salt. How to Cocktail offers 125 recipes that range from classic cocktails to new America's Test Kitchen originals. Our two DIY chapters offer streamlined recipes for making superior versions of cocktail cherries, cocktail onions, flavored syrups, rim salts and sugars, bitters, vermouths, liqueurs, and more. And the final chapter includes a dozen of our test cooks' favorite cocktail-hour snacks. All along the way, we solve practical challenges for the home cook, including how to make an array of cocktails without having to buy lots of expensive bottles, how to use a Boston shaker, what kinds of ice are best and how to make them, and much more. No library descriptions found. |
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Well that’s a trademark America’s Test Kitchen statement! -- that there are underlying techniques (usually involving science) that lead to cookery success. Here, the science is applied to mixing specific cocktails -- about 90 of them, including some without alcohol.
The book opens with an overview of dozens of spirits and mixers, glassware, tools and mixing techniques. It finishes with recipes for homemade add-ins (syrups, bitters, garnishes), homemade liqueurs, and a dozen nibbly snacks. In between, the cocktails are organized by technique (e.g. stirred, shaken, muddled, blended), each presented via a two-page spread, on lush paper, that begins with a few paragraphs of discussion about the history and variations of the drink and its ingredients, followed by the recipe, mixing instructions and a full-page color photo of the finished cocktail, beautifully styled. Yields are generally one serving, although recipes for blended cocktails typically serve four, and big-batch recipes serve 8-12. The book’s tone is unfailingly curious, optimistic and fun.
(Review based on a copy of the book provided by the publisher.) (