Bad Day at Work
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Ingredients
- 1cup sugar
- 1½ounces Bluecoat or other high-quality gin
- 4ounces clementine orange juice (from about 3 to 5 clementines)
- Generous splash of seltzer
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Preparation
- Step 1
Fill a tumbler with crushed ice and set aside.
- Step 2
Make simple syrup: In a small saucepan, mix the sugar with 1 cup water. Simmer over low heat until sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool, about 5 minutes.
- Step 3
In a shaker, combine the gin and orange juice with 1 teaspoon simple syrup. (Remaining syrup can be refrigerated for up to 1 week.) Shake well, and pour into the tumbler. Top with a splash of seltzer, add a stirrer and serve.
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Read the recipe. The sugar is to make simple syrup, of which you need only a teaspoon.
Of course, you don't need to make a full batch of simple syrup. The ratio is 1:1 water to sugar, so you can prepare a solution of any quantity with that ratio.
In fact, here's something to try for this recipe:
Soak zest from one or two clementines in 1-2 T honey for 30 minutes. Then strain the infused honey and prepare as above replacing simple syrup with the honey.
What happens when you combine a Bad Day at Work with a Shirley Temple? A Long Day with the Kids! Recipe: see above, add grenadine and a drunken maraschino cherry for every kid you've had to deal with today! Enjoy!
I'm actually using the Bad Day at Work as a cocktail to greet guests at a team-building cocktail class event. Thanks!
I have started using agave nectar instead of making simple syrup for drinks. If I've had a "hard day at work" the last thing I need is to have to cook before I can make a drink I know... I could make the syrup ahead of time, but somehow that just doesn't happen. The agave nectar is right there ready and willing to mix with my favorite anasthetic.
Made this with New Amsterdam (the opposite of a high quality gin) which has fairly strong notes of vanilla. Pleased to report it tastes like a boozy creamsicle.
I love Boodles gin for this type of drink because it’s a London dry and very juniper-forward with a nice spice finish. Very good especially with citrus juices. Also, I keep rich simple syrup (2c sugar:1c water) on the shelf at all times, it’s useful for so many things and it lasts forever. Cheers!
Don't worry, chickens! (To paraphrase Melanie Wilkes from GWTW). Simple syrup lasts a very long time refrigerated, much longer than a week. Happy drinking!
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