White Lady Soul
White Lady Soul is citrusy gin rounded out with a dose of pineapple. It is served like a quintessential sophisticated gin cocktail so it can easily slip into your recipe repertoire.
A good friend of Sue’s, Kim runs the theatrical production company, Origin Theatrical. We created this cocktail during the Covid 19 pandemic to sweeten one of the online watch parties Kim organised to keep them socially connected. White Lady Soul is designed to be sipped while watching Dusty, the Dusty Springfield Musical.
We based this recipe on the classic, White Lady drink. Firstly, to make it easier, simple sugar syrup and egg white are replaced by pineapple juice. As a result, you still get a frothy top, but it is slightly less thick than what egg white would achieve. Secondly, we looked at sweetness, which wasn’t straightforward since both triple sec and pineapple juice have this job. And finally, we adjusted the amount of acid via lemon juice.
The result was exactly what we love, a simple, never fail recipe.
Recipients: Guests that love classic and citrus gin cocktails, like a gimlet or tom collins
Type: Shaken and strained
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At first, this tastes like none of the ingredients. Though, a calming earthiness overcomes. Then, you detect smoky coffee and musky orange oil, carried along by yeasty bubbles.
Recipients: Bubbly drinkers who need to catch a breath, rest and reflect. Maybe they need a reward for a job well done or making it to the end of a working week. We drink Foxy Brown quite a bit. Hehe!
Type: Made in the glass
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This is intensely lemony as well as sweet. strong and sour.
Confession: Adele gave the punny name to a drink I made one night. A few days later when I wrote out the recipe, it turned out to be a caipiroska, made with mandarin vodka, which doesn’t deserve a name like Citrus Spacek. The only option was to come up with a drink sassy enough to fit the name. Here it is.
Recipients: Lemon lovers, friends with a sweet and sour tooth
Type: Made In Glass
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Recipients: Cool, fun, party people
Type: Made in glass
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