An elegant pink drink in a martini glass, known as the Cosmopolitan cocktail, was popularized in the 1990s by Carrie Bradshaw and her friends, heroines of the American TV show Sex and the City. But up to this point, he was already approved by Madonna and other representatives of American show business, in the famous area of South Beach, Miami. You can even say that in America he became extremely popular after Madonna with a cocktail was seen in photographs from the Grammy ceremony.
The drink was not yet called the Cosmopolitan cocktail in the 1960s, and its recipe was based on the canned cranberry juice Ocean Cranberry Jus and it was called Harpoon.
The current popularity of the Cosmopolitan cocktail, or simply Cosmo, dates back to the mid-1980s. How to make a Cosmopolitan that would appeal to women was invented by Cheryl Cook from Miami, nicknamed Queen Martini South Beach. She mixed Absolute Citron vodka, Rose's lime juice, trill sec (orange liqueur), and added a little cranberry juice to give the drink a distinctive pink hue. Absolute Citron was considered a new product and was not officially sold anywhere in America until 1988. But in Miami, her test sales were just held.
Cosmopolitan Cocktail recipe Cheryl Cook version
Ingredients:
- 60 ml of Absolute Citron vodka;
- 30 ml cranberry juice;
- 30 ml trill sec;
- 15 ml of fresh lime juice;
- pieces of ice.
Cooking:
- put ice in a shaker;
- put all the components in a shaker and shake it well;
- pour the drink into a chilled martini glass;
- Garnish with a lemon wedge and serve.
To decorate a cocktail, as a rule, thin curly orange peel or lemon wedges are most often used.
Dale DiGroff, the King of the Cocktail, after tasting Cosmo at Fog City Daine, a very popular tourist destination in San Francisco, offered his classic version of the cocktail at the famous Rainbow Room restaurant and nightclub in New York in the late 1980s , with fresh lime juice and flambered orange peel.
There are many options for making most famous cocktails, and the Cosmopolitan cocktail is no exception. The recipe varies depending on the bar and on the preferences of the bartender. Many allow themselves great liberties with the original recipe and come up with new variations.
Use regular vodka instead of citrus. Cosmopolitan Blue contains white cranberry juice mixed with Curacao, a blue liquor instead of an orange liquor. In the Italian interpretation, in a cocktail, instead of lime juice, limoncello (lemon liquor) is used.
In Cosmopolitan Barbados, rum replaces vodka.
There is also the so-called “Morning Cosmopolitan” using coffee vodka, which is called “peak-up” or a means to cheer up.
Or such a cocktail "Cosmopolitan", a recipe with pomegranate juice.
Ingredients:
- 60 ml of vodka;
- 60 ml of orange liquor;
- 60 ml of pomegranate juice, preferably freshly squeezed;
- 30 ml of lemon juice.
Cooking:
- If desired, you can use Absolut Citron vodka and freshly squeezed lemon juice, and add sugar to make it sweet;
- mix orange liquor, vodka and pomegranate juice in a shaker with ice. Shake the shaker with vigorous movements;
- pour the drink into a chilled cocktail glass.
An elegant cocktail with Sheridan liqueur can also be called a women's cocktail to a certain extent, but it is so gorgeous that even men cannot resist the temptation to try it.
Sheridan liquor is produced in Dublin by Thomas Sheridan and Sons.
First of all, the liquor bottle itself, which consists of two sections, each with its own neck, captivates. In one part is a whiskey-flavored coffee liqueur, and the other part is filled with white milk chocolate liqueur. When you pour the liquor into a glass, the “white liquor” appears on top of the “black liquor”, which in appearance looks like Irish coffee.
Few pieces of ice in a glass will certainly not hurt.