"Gunther Anderson" > wrote in message
...
> Von Fourche wrote:
>
> > I'm just wondering if you can make drinkable and enjoyable drinks
using
> > bottled lime or is it basically a big no no. I might as well buy a lime
> > squeezer and squeeze my own limes since they are so cheap to begin with.
>
> Sure you can use bottled juice in drinks. It won't ruin it. You might
> not even be able to tell the difference. If you're a professional
> bartender, customers like to see a real lime in their drinks, but they
> can't tell the difference. Especially by the third one...
>
> > Another question - some drinks call for a dash or two of something,
like
> > grenadine. How do you measure a dash?
>
> Somebody standardized a dash to be 1/8 of a teaspoon, but I think you're
> going overboard here. There is no such thing as a perfect drink recipe.
> In all cases, you should mentally add "adjust to taste" after every
> ingredient and every step. In a real-world drink recipe, a dash of some
> fluid is a splash oof it, just enough to make a minor contribution, but
> not enough to change the overall flavor. Splash a little in your drink,
> and the next trime, try a larger or smaller splash. Eventually you'll
> get it just right, to your taste.
>
> > I might try my hand at a tequila sunrise this weekend. The
instructions
> > I have say:
> >
> > 1. 1/23oz tequila
> > 2. 5oz fresh orange juice
> > 3. 2 dash of grenadine
> >
> > I have the tequila and grenadine. I thought I would just buy
orange
> > juice in a carton or gallon to use since I'm a newbie to mixing drinks.
>
> I sure hope that's not 1/23 of an ounce - that's not much tequila...
> But yeah, fixating on specific kinds of orange juce (fresh versus
> carton, navel versus tangelo, Florida versus California) is such a minor
> consideration. You'll be find using Tropicana OJ, and just a splash or
> two of grenadine. My best advice is practice and experimentation. At
> the very least, you get to drink all your failures...
>


Ok, one last question: Where in the heck do I find Orgeat (almond
syrup)?

I've looked and looked in Wal-Mart and a couple of other grocery stores
but I can not find this stuff. I want it to make a Mai Tai. I read on the
net that it might be found near the coffee products. I found other syrup
like vanilla and cherry, but have not found Orgeat/almond syrup yet. What
do I do? Where do I go? Do liquor stores carry this stuff?