sloe gin fizzy, do it till you dizzy, give it all you got until you're put out of your misery

[dragonlady7]

Following: A couple of recipes to make you messed-up, old-school.


I just made a sloe gin fizz. Yay!
1.5 oz sloe gin
.5 oz real gin because I couldn't believe sloe gin would be strong/not gross enough
.25 oz triple sec because I didn't have any simple syrup
1 Tbsp sugar, dissolved in all of the above
lemon juice (like half an ounce or so)
Swish all that around in a mixing glass with a chopstick or a spoon or something

In a collins or pint glass or something, put in like four big ice cubes and put in maybe 4 ounces of soda water. Maybe 5. Whatever.

Mix up all the other stuff, dump it into the soda water, put a little extra soda water into the mixing glass and rinse out all the gritty sugar etc.
Garnish with a lemon.

It's really pretty sweet but on top of a sidecar messes you up in a happy way.

Oh, sidecars!!!
In a shaker, combine
a bunch of ice
2 oz brandy
1 oz Cointreau (if you substitute triple sec, it'll be sweeter and less strong.)
1/2 oz or so of lemon juice

Shake, strain into chilled martini glass. Drink.
Will mess you up pretty good.

Comments

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Heh. Never had sloe gin, but now I have the Tim Curry song "Sloe Gin" going through my head, and that reminds me that I really really need to get an LP-to-mp3 converter, so I can hear that album again.

Kind of random, but there you go. Have fun getting messed up!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Because my sister insisted on watching "In Bruges" since it's her birthday, I have They Might Be Giants' "Meet James Ensor" in my head.

Also, yes, I'm somewhat messed-up. But somehow it's more amusing and less icky than when you just have ten of the same thing.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Oh, I LOVED "In Bruges." Morgan loved that movie because he spent time, well, not so much in Bruges as adjacent to it.