Cocktails

Almost time to start making eggnog!

I can't remember my previous recipe, so will be trying a couple of new ones this year.
I've always used Rum in mine, but this year the drinks cabinet has Bourbon as well as Cinnamon whisky, so might make a tasting selection to see what's Top Nog.

eggnog

I grew up making non-alcoholic versions of this, not knowing it was even a boozy xmas drink.
Had a special shaker, it had egg and cinnamon and milk and I have no idea what else. Not sure I could even drink it now, the thought of raw egg grosses me out a bit :)

I want some of the cinnamon bourbon. I like the cinnamon sweets I had in the USA and want the flashbacks :)

I always cook my eggnog

Euph?

Mine was in Oz so it was basically a variety of milkshake for me, not a warming drink.

Made this ish with beam tonight.

Right pissheads... who's got the best passionfruit/porn star martini recipe?

This is what we're currently looking at...
https://thirstymag.com/how-to-make-porn-star-martini/

Going to be making some pickle backs soon. Will be my New Years drink of choice

What’s wrong with that one? It looks fine to me. Just play with the ingredients until you like the way it tastes, or until you fall over.

Isn't that just a shot of pickle brine from a jar?

Pickle brine after a shot of whiskey! Will be making by my own pickles, and therefore my own brine and then can also make a pickle sour or a pickle old fashioned...

Yes!!!!! Should be bread and butter pickle brine. Hit me up for the recipe. Where are you finding ogurki at this time of year?

I don't know, I've never had one. It's for a friend who was asking for the best recipe. I would start with the accepted original and then modify as deemed appropriate but I've never made or tasted one.

Where are you finding ogurki at this time of year?

Find a polski sklep and buy them already done?
But if you're doing DIY you might still find some places with their pickles um unpickled.

Fresh ogurki - has to be for my recipe. In Ealing it was easy, but it's harder to find in SE. I was hoping Corny has a secret sklep nearby he was going to tell me about.

Will definitely hit you up, currently using store brought gherkins and their brine for it.
Couple of questions why are they called bread and butter pickles when these no bread or butter used in their pickling?
Two, what are ogurki? And three will it taste the same if I use cucumbers as most of the recipes I've seen use those?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Og%C3%B3rki

That's just a region, should be ogorki, your Google fu is weak.
Found the answer to my question about bread and butter pickles - answer is from Wikipedia so may be subject to amendments at a later date..

Bread-and-butter pickles are a marinated pickle produced with sliced cucumbers in a solution of vinegar, sugar and spices which may be either processed by canning or simply chilled as refrigerator pickles. The origin of the name and the spread of their popularity in the United States is attributed to Omar and Cora Fanning, a pair of Illinois cucumber farmers who started selling sweet and sour pickles in the 1920s and filed for the trademark "Fanning's Bread and Butter Pickles" in 1923 (though the recipe and similar ones are probably much older). The story attached to the name is that the Fannings survived rough years by making the pickles with their surplus of undersized cucumbers and bartering them with their grocer for staples such as bread and butter.

No, you failed to read it.

Ogórki [ɔˈɡurki] (translation: Cucumbers;

https://journeyfromapolishkitchen.com/2015/09/17/ogorki-gherkins/
http://polishhousewife.com/ogorki-kiszone-polish-pickles/

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Ogorki/ogurki are also known as Kirby cucumbers which is the standard used for pickles in the US thanks to the Polish/Czech immigrants. They are smaller than the smooth skinned Persian cucumber you see in the UK.

Start here - here are lots of options out there but what you want to look for are recipes for bread and butter pickles - this one is a really great starting point - https://smittenkitchen.com/2010/06/bread-and-butter-pickles/

And just modify it from there.

A couple of things to think about when looking for bits over here.

• Polish shops will frequently have Ogurki - also known as Kirby cucumbers - so I would start there as a source for the right ones. Fully grown Persian cucumbers (a.k.a. regular cucumbers) won't work although in a pinch if you can find baby cucumbers, they will work as well.
  
• Look hard for the sweet, all white onion - they make such a difference. I used to find them at Waitrose, but struggled anywhere else really. You can use a mix of yellow onion and banana shallots, but you will need to up your sugar by 50% to compensate. And to me, it's not quite the same.
  
• Plain white vinegar is fine although I prefer to use is the Sarson's pickling vinegar. To be clear, this is not the same as white wine vinegar, you want just white vinegar.
  

Kirbycucumbers

That's the best name ever.

Cucumber school is now in session.

https://www.thekitchn.com/cucumber-primer-kirby-gherkin-58507

Oh and. YOUR a cucumber. etc.....

I can't believe I'm even talking about them. Cucumbers are probably top of my list for disgusting foods. I hate the green bastards. (pickled) Ogórki (Korniszon?) are marginally better than normal cucumbers and I'll eat cucumbers to be polite but if I can remove them from sight I will.

pukes on cucumber

These. Pickled and consumed alongside large quantities of wodka.

"Korniszon"