Kate's Global Kitchen: Five Virgin Cocktail Recipes

Five Virgin Cocktails

Each recipe makes one drink

Cranberry Citrus Cocktail

6 ounces cranberry juice cocktail
2 ounces club soda
1 teaspoon orange juice
1 lime wedge

Fill a glass with crushed ice, pour in the cranberry juice. Top with club soda and orange juice. Squeeze in the juice from the lime wedge, drop in the wedge, stir and serve.

Mint Tea 'nade

Mix equal parts of lemonade or limeade and brewed mint tea. Serve over ice and garnish with a twist of lemon or lime peel, or sprig of mint. Try different flavored teas, or pink lemonade as variations.

Roy Rogers

6 ounces cola
1-1/2 teaspoons grenadine
Garnish:
orange slice or maraschino cherry

Pour cola over crushed ice, top with grenadine, garnish and serve.

Shirley Temple

6 ounces cola or ginger ale
1-1/2 teaspoons grenadine
Garnish:
orange slice or maraschino cherry

Pour ginger ale over crushed ice, top with grenadine, garnish and serve.

Picante Pleaser

3 ounces cranberry juice
3 ounces tomato juice
1 teaspoon Tabasco
1 teaspoon lime juice
Fresh ground black pepper to taste
Dash salt
Garnish: Cilantro sprig or lime wedge

Pour all ingredients over crushed ice. Garnish and serve.

Drink Recipes

Sangrita, with or without Tequila
Whip up a refreshing pitcher of sangrita. Serve it in small glasses for sipping by itself, or accompany it with small glasses of tequila in the Mexican style of a "completo."

Setting Up a Champagne Bar

Virgin Drinks

Five Virgin Cocktails
(Cranberry Citrus Cocktail, Mint Tea 'nade, Roy Rogers, Shirley Temple, Picante Pleaser)
After Dinner Chamomile Cranberry Tea
Strawberry-Lemonade Fizz

Virile Drinks

Casanova (A Dessert Drink)
Christmas Shrub for a Crowd
Ebeneezer's Eggnog
Golden Hot Buttered Rum
Mangini
Millennium Cocktail
Smoky Martini
Sour Beer Punch

Kate's Global Kitchen for December 2004:
12/03/04     Christmas Cheer For Cooks: Gift Guide 2004
12/10/04     Nuts to You: The Process of Toasting Nuts
12/17/04     Holiday Light: Veggie Dips 'n' Wonton Chips
12/24/04     Virgin Cocktails and Virile Libations
12/31/04     Graduated Cookery for 2005