As close as I can get to the 1000 Cranes cocktail.

2 oz of a mix containing Ichiko Saiten that had sliced cucumber sitting in it for 4 hours, some Midori, some Mastica, some St. Germain.

3/4 oz lime juice (had no lemons)

One teaspoon lime leaf simple (complicated?) syrup

One teaspoon orange syrup.

Shaken, topped with fever tree yuzu lime soda.

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    1000 subs and yet a strange lack of cocks and tails on this sub. Things that make you go hmmm.

    Absolutely amazing! I’ll have to post up the Mezcal plane (paper plane with Mezcal, needs a better name???) that I had a subscriber here recommend.

  • RBWells@lemmy.worldOPM
    1·
    9 months ago

    If you have a lime tree, I do recommend the lime leaf syrup. Basically just a very sweetened infusion. It really is different from one made with the zest, more herbal, and I don’t have a specialty tree (kaffir lime), these were leaves from a dwarf Persian lime tree. The green fresh citrus flavor was a good substitute for the lemon verbena syrup.

      • RBWells@lemmy.worldOPM
        2·
        9 months ago

        Easy here (Florida) and the dwarf trees can grow in a pot so even if you are somewhere cold it’s possible. Main problem in Florida is diseases - trees to grow here must come from nearby and be clean of citrus greening.

        My lime tree made it 2 years in a pot before I planted it into the ground. Used “citrus spikes” to fertilize it, it did make plenty of fruit in season.

        I would say easy compared to most fruit trees.

        Learning to make super juice helps too - if you are having a party you can just leave that out and it tastes fresh all night.