SCHEMA COCKTAILS
• A cocktail is an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or spirits mixed with other
ingredients such as fruit juice or cream.
• The origin of the word might refer to glasses decorated with cockerel tail
feathers or to the shape of the container full of leftover drinks.
• To make good cocktail is important to learn the relationship between strong
and weak and sour and sweet.
• Strong is the main alcohol component of the cocktail.
• Weak is the less alcoholic part like liqueurs.
• Sour means citrus fruit (lemon or lime ).
• Sweet is the added sugar or syrups.
• Nearly all cocktails consist of strong and sour. Weak and sweet can be added
together or separately.
• The most used cocktail-making methods are :
1. Shaking : when you mix the cocktail in a cocktail shaker , three quarters filled
with ice cubes. Then you pour the ingredients into the shaker from strongest to
weakest. Shake with one hand on the top and one on the base until the cocktail
is sufficiently chilled. You then strain in a glass.
2. Stirring : is when you mix a cocktail with a long bar spoon in a mixing glass
before straining into a glass. You shouldn’t use crushed ice and water
condensing outside shows that the cocktail is ready.
3. Blending : is when you mix fruit juices, alcohol, fruit in an electric blender
until smooth. It is used to mix ingredients that don’t combine easily
[Link] can add a little crushed ice in the end.
4. Building : is when you pour the ingredients into the glass you are serving the
cocktail. You usually float the ingredients on top of each other, or you can mix
them together with a swizzle stick.
