Recipe information
Yield
each makes 1 drink
Ingredients
2 sprigs mint
1 teaspoon simple syrup (see Tips, page 191)
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) freshly squeezed lime juice
1 1/2 ounces (3 tablespoons) gin
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) orange curaçao or
Paula’s Texas Orange liqueur
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) crème de cassis
Ice cubes
Preparation
Chill a cocktail glass. Using a small wooden spoon or mallet, lightly muddle or press together 1 mint sprig with the simple syrup in the bottom of a mixing glass or cocktail shaker. Add the lime juice, gin, curaçao, and crème de cassis. Shake vigorously with ice to chill; strain into the chilled glass. Garnish with the remaining mint sprig.
Pastry Queen Parties by Rebecca Rather and Alison Oresman. Copyright © 2009 Rebecca Rather and Alison Oresman. Published by Ten Speed Press. All Rights Reserved.
A pastry chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author, native Texan Rebecca Rather has been proprietor of the Rather Sweet Bakery and Café since 1999. Open for breakfast and lunch daily, Rather Sweet has a fiercely loyal cadre of regulars who populate the café’s sunlit tables each day. In 2007, Rebecca opened her eponymous restaurant, serving dinner nightly, just a few blocks from the café. Rebecca is the author of THE PASTRY QUEEN, and has been featured in Texas Monthly, Gourmet, Ladies Home Journal, Food & Wine, Southern Living, Chocolatier, Saveur, and O, The Oprah Magazine. When she isn’t in the bakery or on horseback, Rebecca enjoys the sweet life in Fredericksburg, where she tends to her beloved backyard garden and menagerie, and eagerly awaits visits from her college-age daughter, Frances.
Alison Oresman has worked as a journalist for more than twenty years. She has written and edited for newspapers in Wyoming, Florida, and Washington State. As an entertainment editor for the Miami Herald, she oversaw the paper’s restaurant coverage and wrote a weekly column as a restaurant critic. After settling in Washington State, she also covered restaurants in the greater Seattle area as a critic with a weekly column. A dedicated home baker, Alison is often in the kitchen when she isn't writing. Alison lives in Bellevue, Washington, with her husband, Warren, and their children, Danny and Callie.
