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Homegrown cocktails

Learn to make pineappleinfused vodka and many more infused spirts, mixers and syrups

quality spirit that is smooth and clean. That doesn’t mean you have to fork out the bucks for a Grey Goose. For an infusion, Smirnoff works just fi ne. Just make sure it is 100 proof.

To save my pineapple blunder, she suggested adding a tiny bit of simple syrup, about one ounce per quart. Or I could use my pineapple vodka as a cocktail ingredient instead of serving it straight up as a martini. She says I might like pineapple infused with rum or tequila better, too.

“Shake, Stir, Pour” goes into detail about making infusions, but once I looked through the book it became clear that pineapple vodka is just the beginning to what can be created. Katie has recipes for

By SYLVIA ANDERSON St. Joseph News-Press

It was at a restaurant in Minneapolis where I fi rst tried a “skoli doli” or pineapple-infused vodka martini.

I was intrigued by these after seeing a large glass jar on the bar that was fi lled to the top with vodka and pineapple slices. My friends assured me that it would not taste at all like vodka, and surprisingly it didn’t. The martini was light, fragrant and all pineapple. I knew immediately I must learn to make this fantastic concoction at home. I followed some instructions from the Internet, but instead of skoli doli, it was more like skuzzy duzzy. What went wrong?

I turned to Katie Loeb, a renowned mixologist in the beverage industry and author of the new book, SUBMITTED PHOTO/ “Shake, Stir, Pour: Fresh Blueberry syrup you make yourself turns lemonade into something speHomegrown Cocktails.” cial.

The book has 50 original Katie says cheap vodka recipes for syrups, mixers, you’re after. You’re not infused spirits and bitters trying to chemically alter could be the culprit, too.

You need to use a decentusing farm-fresh ingre- it.” dients, and, I discovered after the fact, a recipe for pineapple vodka.

She surmised my pineapples were not ripe enough.

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making your own grenadine using no red food coloring, mint syrup for mint juleps, blueberry syrup for blueberry lemonade, blackberry shrubs made from fruit-infused vinegars, passion fruit syrup for Hurricanes, your own Bloody Mary mix and the list goes on and on. You’ll discover that just as with any kind of cooking, fresh ingredients taste best.

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color — it’s gorgeous.”

To make the Love in limes. When mixed with Bloom, you put a whole the food preservative powflower in the bottom of a der people use in canning, champagne flute, then top it can be stored in the rewith some hibiscus syrup frigerator indefinitely for and champagne. the best-tasting gimlet “You top with chamanywhere. pagne and then there’s Katie also gives recipes this flower blossoming at for drinks you won’t find the bottom of the glass,” everywhere, such as “Love Katie says. “It’s very roin Bloom.” It’s made using mantic looking for an ana syrup made from dried niversary or Valentine’s hibiscus flowers. You can Day.” find the flowers in most The most important Mexican grocery stores. (I thing to remember with found some at the Kansas all of the recipes is to keep City Farmers Market.) things clean. You can re“It’s in many cultures,” purpose wine bottles to she says, “and it turns evstore your infusions in, erything a bright fuchsia

but make sure to dip in boiling water first. Store infused syrups and spirits in the refrigerator, unless they are made with ingredients such as herbs that won’t spoil without refrigeration.

Finally, don’t be afraid to try something different.

You can always try again or make adjustments. After taking Katie’s advice, my skuzzy duzzy wasn’t skuzzy any more.

Sylvia Anderson can be reached at sylvia.anderson @newspressnow.com.

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Make your drinks at home sparkle PINEAPPLE VODKA

solved. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Puree in 2 large pineapples blender, add lemon zest 1 bottle (1.75-liter) vodka and allow to cool to room Remove the top leaves temperature. Strain into a from the pineapples. Peel bowl through a fine-mesh the pineapples and quarter strainer, chinoise or a them lengthwise. Slice off double layer of cheesecloth the tough inner core from to remove berry skins, each pineapple quarter. lemon zest and any stems Slice quarters into 1/4 inch or leaves. Funnel into clean thick slices. Stack slices glass jars and refrigerate. alternating like bricks This syrup keeps for up to around the perimeter of three weeks. the inside of your infuYield: Approximately sion jar, leaving the center 1 quart space open. When the jar is filled with all the slices, pour the vodka gently into BLUEBERRY the center space, filling up LEMONADE the jar and spaces between 1 1/2 cups Blueberry Syrup the fruit slices.

IMPORTANT: Cover all 1 1/2 cups fresh lemon of the fruit completely with juice vodka and do not leave 3 cups water any fruit exposed to air at Garnish: Lemon wheel or the top of the jar as a way skewered blueberries to discourage any mold Combine Blueberry growth.

Syrup, lemon juice and For maximum flavor, water in a large pitcher infuse pineapples in the or container. Stir well to vodka for 10 days out of combine. Serve over ice direct sunlight. Strain off and garnish with a lemon the vodka, and funnel it wheel or skewered blueberinto clean bottles for stor- ries. If you’d like to make age. Keep it refrigerated. this into an “adults-only” The fruit can be eaten, but lemonade, add a couple of a lot of the flavor will have ounces of citrus, raspleached into the vodka. berry or vanilla vodka or a citrus-forward gin like BLUEBERRY SYRUP Bluecoat to your glass.

Yield: 1 1/2 quarts 3 cups water 3 cups blueberries, rinsed HIBISCUS SYRUP clean and any visible stems removed 6 cups water 2 cups sugar 3 cups loosely packed, dried 1 teaspoon grated or micro- hibiscus flowers 5 cups sugar planed lemon zest 1 tablespoon pure vanilla Bring water to a boil extract (optional) in a medium saucepan.

Add blueberries and lower 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie heat to a simmer. Simmer spice (also optional, but berries for 10 minutes until works well in several of the they begin to soften. Add cocktail recipes) sugar and stir until disBring water to boiling

in a large pot and remove from heat. Stir dried hibiscus flowers into the water gently, cover and allow to cool for several hours or overnight. Strain out the hibiscus flowers.

Bring hibiscus water back to a simmer and add sugar, whisking until dissolved, and remove from heat. Add vanilla extract and spice if desired, stirring to be certain all ingredients are fully incorporated. Store in refrigerator for up to one month, or freeze up to six months.

You can save the whole rehydrated hibiscus flowers in Hibiscus Syrup to cover for the following cocktail, as a drink garnish or just to enjoy their tart raspberry-like flavor. They are completely edible and quite delicious.

Yield: Approximately 2 quarts

LOVE IN BLOOM 1 rehydrated hibiscus flower 1/2 to 3/4 ounces Hibiscus Syrup to taste 4 ounces Brut champagne or dry sparkling wine of your choice Place hibiscus flower at the bottom of champagne flute. Top with Hibiscus Syrup. Gently pour sparkling wine down the side of the flute until almost filled. The bubbles in the wine should help the flower “bloom” at the bottom of the flute, and the wine should have turned a lovely shade of pink in the glass.

Yield: One drink SUBMITTED PHOTO/ — Shake, Stir, Pour: Fresh Hibiscus flowers turn champagne into ‘Love in Bloom,’ one of 50 recipes to be found in ‘Shake, Stir, Pour: Homegrown Cocktails” by Fresh Homegrown Cocktails’ by Katie Loeb.

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enough to make, according to Melissa Duke of Pleasant View, Tenn., who has gone into the paracord jewelrymaking business full-time.

Duke, 38, made her first bracelet at her son’s request last August, then another for her husband. One year and about 1,000 bracelets later, she has quit her medical office job and sells bracelets and key chains online at her Etsy shop, Knot Creations, and elsewhere.

Team sports bracelets sell the best, she says.

“I didn’t hear about them before last year,” Duke says. “You see people with them a lot now.”

For outdoorsman Greg Ticknor, 22, of Helena, Mont., the bracelets provide a convenience. Ticknor used to carry a wad of parachute cord in his pocket “just to have in case I needed it” while hunting or fishing. He saw the bracelets and learned how to make them. Now Ticknor and his brother, Eli, can carry 12 feet of paracord — around their wrists.

“Whenever we’re out in the woods we always have them,” says Eli Ticknor, 18. “We’re tying stuff to backpacks, making shelters. A friend used his to pull dead trees he’d cut down.”

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The paracord bracelet is 10 to 14 feet of tightly woven, military-quality, nylon parachute cord that can be unraveled to assist the wearer out of a jam.

It’s popular now as a craft, especially among men and boys.

Kurt Walchle, who says he invented the bracelets, can click off a dozen stories about how they have helped their wearers, from repairing a broken shoe to providing a life-saving tourniquet.

It began more than seven years ago with a broken

watchband, which Walchle fixed using paracord. The woven band got him some attention in his hometown of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., so he started making watchbands, then bracelets, and selling them on eBay. What began as a twoperson operation using the

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Yet the stories that customers post to the Survival Straps website provide testimony to their utility.

Walchle’s favorite story is that of a U.S. soldier in Iraq named “James” who says he staunched a bleeding leg wound with his bracelet.

“He credited us — our product — for bringing him home from war,” says Walchle. “That blew me away.

Now (this business is) serious. It helped save a soldier’s life.”

Walchle, 42, donates 10 percent of proceeds to the Wounded Warrior Project, which helps injured service members transition to civilian life.

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There also are a lot of knock-off bracelets, and instructions for making them— and necklaces and key chains — on sites such as YouTube.com. Some come in sports-team and college colors. Pink bracelets promote breast cancer awareness.

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