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Rather nice...
27 December 2007 21:32Take about five of six mint leaves and drop them into the bottom of a glass, along with the juice of half a lime. Then take the darkest sugar you can find, and mix it half and half with water (you might have to heat it to make it dissolve... let it cool again before using it). Add a tablespoon or two of this to the glass, along with the lime juice and mint leaves. Then mash it up somehow - you don't need to completely crush it, just squeeze the lime and break up the mint a little to let the oils out. personally, I use the end of a rolling pin in a half-pint glass.
Once you've done this, top the glass up most of the way with crushed ice. For crushing ice, I recommend the use of a relatively sturdy sandwich bag and a meat tenderizer, although a rolling pin would do.
Once the ice is in the glass, throw in a measure (or in my case, a measure and a bit) of vanilla vodka. Normal vodka's okay too, but vanilla is better. Then top the glass up with ginger ale and chuck in the husks of the half a lime you squeezed the juice out of.
Then drink.
(This does of course work with rum instead of vodka, and with soda instead of ginger ale... at which point it'd be a Mojito. I've not actually tried this, though, not being a fan of rum. I might try it one day, though.)
Once you've done this, top the glass up most of the way with crushed ice. For crushing ice, I recommend the use of a relatively sturdy sandwich bag and a meat tenderizer, although a rolling pin would do.
Once the ice is in the glass, throw in a measure (or in my case, a measure and a bit) of vanilla vodka. Normal vodka's okay too, but vanilla is better. Then top the glass up with ginger ale and chuck in the husks of the half a lime you squeezed the juice out of.
Then drink.
(This does of course work with rum instead of vodka, and with soda instead of ginger ale... at which point it'd be a Mojito. I've not actually tried this, though, not being a fan of rum. I might try it one day, though.)
