Pickled: From Curing Lemons to Fermenting Cabbage, the Gourmand's Ultimate Guide to the World of Pickling (23 page)

Shake all the ingredients in a shaker tin with ice. Then strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with the orange rings.

 

This delightful drink is a pure glass of the South. It’s incredibly refreshing on a hot and humid summer day
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 1
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ounces peach vodka

 1 ounce peach-flavored brandy

 
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ounce lemon juice

 1 teaspoon Pickled Peaches (see
Part II
)

 
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fresh peach, cut up and peeled

 
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cup ice

Combine ingredients in a blender with ice. Blend thoroughly. Pour into a tall glass.

 

This cute-sounding recipe plays on the soothing combination of lemon and honey to create a smooth and comforting drink with a heavy dose of sweetness. The pickled lemon juice helps to offset the honey
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 2 ounces gin

 
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ounce honey

 
¹
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ounce fresh lemon juice

 Dash juice from Preserved Lemons (see
Part II
)

 Rind from Preserved Lemons (see
Part II
), for garnish

Shake all ingredients in a shaker tin of ice. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a pickled rind.

 

Every ingredient in this drink, from the honey to the pickled lemon juice, has antiseptic or antibiotic properties. Give it a try if you’re feeling under the weather. Just don’t drink too many servings!

 

This drink lends itself well to a variety of pickled ingredients. We’ve recommended pairing it with Watermelon Pickles, but you could just as easily garnish it with Preserved Lemons or Spiced Orange Rings (see
Part II
) to play on the other flavors
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 1
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ounces watermelon vodka

 
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ounce Cointreau

 
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ounce lime juice or freshly squeezed lime

 1 ounce cranberry juice

 Rind from Watermelon Pickles (see
Part II
)

Pour all liquid ingredients into a shaker tin of ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with the rind from Watermelon Pickles.

 

Don’t confuse this with the beer of a similar name! The Blue Moon is a lemon-flavored drink that gets playful with violet liqueur, an unusual floral note
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YIELDS 1 SERVING

 

 2 ounces gin

 1 ounce violet liqueur

 
¹
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ounce fresh lemon juice

 1 piece lemon rind from Preserved Lemons (see
Part II
)

Shake all the liquid ingredients in a shaker tin with ice. Then strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with the preserved rind.

 

Violet liqueur can be a bit difficult to obtain. If you can’t find it, consider substituting it with a vanilla liqueur. If you do so, you might wish to add a small dash of pickled lemon juice to the cocktail to help cut through some of the pronounced vanilla sweetness.

 

This gimlet features the addition of cucumber to the normal gin and lime juice combination. The cucumber adds a lovely cooling touch to the already refreshing drink
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 2 tablespoons cucumber, chopped and de-seeded

 2 ounces gin

 
¹
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ounce lime juice

 
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ounce juice from Pickled Limes (see
Part II
)

 1 ounce simple syrup

Drop the fresh cucumber into the bottom of a short glass and muddle. Add a handful of ice and the rest of the ingredients. Stir.

 

For the nonpickled lime juice in this recipe, many purists consider Rose’s lime juice to be the only acceptable or “real” version of this recipe. Of course, a purist likely wouldn’t be drinking a pickled gimlet, so feel free to use fresh lime juice if that suits you.

 

This is a creative blended margarita that picks up a number of unique flavors from the chutney, including the complementary taste of tropical mango!

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 1
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ounces aged tequila

 
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ounce triple sec

 3 ounces margarita mix

 1 tablespoon Mango Chutney (see
Part II
)

 1 cup ice

 Lime wheel for garnish

Put the first five ingredients in a blender and blend. Pour into a margarita glass and garnish with the lime wheel.

 

This deeply flavored cocktail gets two different pickled ingredients that act as a counterpoint to the heavy rum and ginger beer. If that’s too much pickle for you, feel free to remove one of them
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 2 ounces Gosling’s dark rum

 Ginger beer to fill

 Dash of liquid from Pickled Ginger (see
Part II
)

 Dash of liquid from Pickled Limes (see
Part II
)

 Rind from Pickled Limes (see
Part II
)

Pour the rum over ice in a highball glass and fill with ginger beer. Add the pickling liquids and garnish with the lime rind.