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The International Bartenders Association gives a recipe using 1/10 crème de cassis, but French sources typically specify more; 19th-century recipes for blanc-cassis recommended 1/3 crème de cassis, which modern tastes find cloyingly sweet, and modern sources typically say about 1/5. Replacing the crème de cassis with blackcurrant syrup is ...
Crème de cassis (French pronunciation: [kʁɛm də kasis]) (also known as Cassis liqueur) is a sweet, dark red liqueur made from blackcurrants. [ 1 ] Several cocktails are made with crème de cassis, notably the popular wine cocktail kir [ 2 ] and its sparkling variant, the kir royal . [ 3 ]
1 cl (0.33 ounce) (1 part) crème de cassis; Preparation: Add the crème de cassis to the bottom of the glass, then top up champagne. Notes: A recipe can be found at the International Bartenders Association website as a variation of the Kir. [1]
Named after a Catholic priest and member of the French resistance during World War II, the bubbly drink is often made with Champagne, crème de cassis (a syrupy blackcurrant liqueur), and fresh ...
The Chimayó cocktail is created by mixing 1½ oz tequila with 1 oz unfiltered apple cider, 1/4 oz fresh lemon juice and 1/4 oz creme de cassis over ice. According to Eric Felten, a James Beard Award recipient for Newspaper Writing on Spirits, Wine and Beer, the "touch of casis...gives the drink a pleasant, pale purplish hue and the sweetness needed to balance the tart lemon taste."
Macerated blackcurrants are also the primary ingredient in the apéritif, crème de cassis, [44] which in turn is added to white wine to produce a Kir or to champagne to make a Kir Royal. In the UK, a blackcurrant squash may be mixed with beer or alcoholic cider to make drinks including "cider and black", [45] "lager and black", or "snakebite ...
Fino sherry is a classic apéritif.. An apéritif is an alcoholic beverage usually served before a meal to stimulate the appetite, and is usually dry rather than sweet.. Common choices for an apéritif are vermouth; champagne; pastis; gin; ouzo; fino; amontillado or other styles of dry sherry (but not usually cream or oloroso blended sherry, which is very sweet and
A Tequila Sunrise is a basic layered drink of grenadine syrup (bottom), orange juice, and tequila. Black and Tan; Black Velvet; Blue Eyed Blonde [2]; B-52; Oatmeal Cookie; Pousse-café (1/2 ounce Grenadine, 1/2 ounce yellow chartreuse, 1/2 ounce crème de cassis, 1/2 ounce white creme de menthe, 1/2 ounce green chartreuse, and 1/2 ounce brandy, layered in order given).