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Does anyone know who the sidecar specialist in Bower is?
To Make a Sidecar :-
Ingredients:
Juice of 1/4 Lemon
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. Five Star Brandy
Directions:
Shake with ice & strain into cocktail glass.
and the you are 1 SideCar :lol:
Forgive my ignorance, but what's Triple Sec ? (I've obviously led a very sheltered life in my sidecar)
Back to Google for the answer to that one
Forgive my ignorance, but what's Triple Sec ? (I've obviously led a very sheltered life in my sidecar)
The Spanish equivalent to Cointreau, a lot cheaper and just as nice, found mainly in Majorca.
The Spanish equivalent to Cointreau, a lot cheaper and just as nice, found mainly in Majorca.
Not quite correct, a cheaper version can be bought all over and can be made in Spain but it is in fact originally a French Liqueur.
Triple sec is an orange-flavoured liqueur made from the dried peel of oranges from the Caribbean. Its name means triple distilled.
It is widely used in mixed drinks and recipes as a sweetening and flavouring agent. Better-quality brands are made from brandy or Cognac and are often sipped alone, typically as a digestive. Some brands are colourless while others have degrees of the golden coloration of their brandy base.
The spirit was invented in 1834 by Jean-Baptiste Combier in Saumur, France. Original Combier triple sec is still made today using sun-dried orange skins from Saint-Raphaël, Haiti steeped in alcohol for 24 hours and distilled in 100-year-old copper-pot stills.
A form known as "Orange Curaçao" is made from oranges from that Caribbean island.
Wiki strikes again
Not quite correct either. Yes I did go to Wikipedia but I also knew the information but not quite all of it.
I have used Triple-Sec in the Making of Cocktails when I worked in the American Cocktail Bar at Gleneagles Hotel back in 1968-69. I used then Combier Triple-Sec but for the life of me I could not remember the name so I double checked with Wiki to make sure that I was correct in what I stated.
Then I got lazy and Pasted the Information, sad I know but I was watching 60 minute makeover on TV.
Help - all I wanted was the name of local sidecar man (which I'm hoping to get via a PM). Sidecars as in motor bikes you understand. How on earth did I finish up with all these cocktail recipes?
Still at least now I know what triple sec is - very interesting. Must put on my Christmas list. That's what comes of having almost TT parents - my mother managed to get quite tiddly on a small glass of half sherry/half water which must have been pretty horrible.
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