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    Stranger Gins
    Stranger Gins
    Stranger Gins
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    Stranger Gins

    By CICO Books

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    Match your drink to your download for the best viewing experience.
    During lockdown, we've all discovered the joys of streaming, catch-up, and box sets on TV. Coincidentally perhaps, some of us have also seen "wine o'clock" creeping ever earlier into the day. Why not make the most of both pleasures with this guide to what to drink as you watch. Try a Dirty Don martini to evoke the "Mad Men" era in Manhattan, or feast on a Blood and Sand while catching up with "Big Little Lies". Watch Scandi noir thrillers with a Danish Bloody Mary, or accompany "The Crown" with the Queen's favourite tipple, a Gin & It. "Say Yes to the Dress" demands a glass of Something Blue, while a Red Wedding Blood Martini is the perfect way to warm yourself when "winter is coming." With these recipes for 50 cocktails and mixes, you can easily match your tipple to your TV favourites. Cheers!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCICO Books
    Release dateApr 13, 2021
    ISBN9781912983452
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      Stranger Gins - CICO Books

      INTRODUCTION

      In the pre-pandemic days, cocktails were a big part of socializing. Many of us were spoiled by the ability to have a drink after work with co-workers, share gossip over a bottle of wine with our best friends, or toast to exciting things with family for a celebration; but then everything shifted. And seemingly overnight. We all went from making weekend plans to hoarding toilet paper and Clorox wipes.

      With sheltering in place, many were forced to get creative with their social lives. We Zoomed and House Partied and played Bingo and did online group karaoke, but as spring moved on, most of us turned to binge-watching. Maybe it was listlessness. Maybe it was what we were all familiar with, and it felt like the only normal and comfortable thing in a year of abnormality.

      Once we started bingeing, we watched everything we could get our hands on, from throwbacks from the 1980s and ’90s to re-watching some of the best shows of the last year (if not the last decade), to—let us not forget—murderous tiger keepers. For many of us, TV became our escape. Maybe even, dare I say, our fun.

      This book is the perfect pairing for those homebodies out there, who now consider an episode of Game of Thrones or a rerun of Cheers to be their favorite sort of Happy Hour.

      simple sugar syrup

      Before we start, here’s a recipe for simple sugar syrup, which is a key ingredient in some of the cocktails that follow.

      Ingredients

      Superfine (caster) sugar

      Water

      Mix superfine (caster) sugar and water in equal quantities by weight and stir. The mixture will be cloudy at first but keep stirring and eventually it will form a clear syrup. This will keep in a clean, screw-top jar or bottle in the fridge for three weeks.

      carrie’s cosmopolitan

      This drink and this show go together like Mr. Big and Carrie, Miranda and Steve, and New York and money. When Sex in the City first aired, no one expected it to be as huge as it became. It also seemed that there were a few supporting characters that gained fame off the show. No, I’m not talking about Stanford or Aidan or Muffy, I’m talking about Manolo Blahnik shoes and Cosmopolitan cocktails. Carrie’s Cosmo is now iconic among the most classic of cocktails made famous by pop

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