Rosebud – My Way

Chickie Little — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:22:41 +0000

After having Rosebuds at Chow, I just had to know how to make one.

The last time we went, we made sure to watch the bartender closely to see what and how much he put into it. Chow provides a list of ingredients on their online cocktail menu so that was a good start.

After close observation and a couple of attempts, I’ve come up with the following recipe. The ingredients online say ‘passionfruit’, which is probably passionfruit juice or drink of some sort. I’ve opted for passionfruit concentrate because that’s what we have in the fridge. Being so, I’ve had to increase the other juices to make up the volume that the concentrate lacks.

The concentrate has seeds but you can just strain those when pouring.

Rosebud cocktail

Rosebud (my way)

30ml Absolute Vanilla Vodka
45ml cranberry juice
45ml pineapple juice
15ml passionfruit concentrate
5ml lemon juice
ice

Put everything into a shaker. Shake really well and strain into a champagne flute. It’s prettier if some froth sits on top so add some from the shaker if it’s all just sitting there.

Not exactly the same as Chow’s but still delicious and very easy to drink – so be careful!
Update: Please see Kula’s comment below for the ‘real’ version. Cheers!

Jack Frooze

Chickie Little — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:03:23 +0000

I was wanting a lychee daquiri but couldn’t find any tins of lychees in my pantry. Instead, there was a tin of jack fruit, and I decided to conjure up a cocktail with that instead. The results were quite pleasant.

If you haven’t had jack fruit before, I guess the taste could be described as a cross between mango and pawpaw. Jack fruit is not as strong or sweet in flavour as those, but does have a refreshing taste and beautiful fragrance.

A guy I work with says in India there are a couple of varieties, one of which they use unripe in curries as the ripe fruit is no good for eating. I haven’t had fresh jack fruit but the tinned stuff is pretty good.

The recipe is for two frozen cocktails.

Jack Frooze

2 scoops of ice (up to the level of about 3 cups in the blender jug)
4 pieces of tinned jack fruit
60ml Absolute vanilla vodka
60 ml of syrup from the tin
45 ml passionfruit syrup
juice of half a lemon

Put all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into pina colada glasses (or other 250ml cocktail glass).

Enjoy!

Jack Frooze

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Rosebud – My Way

Rosebud (my way)

Jack Frooze

Jack Frooze