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Saving Graces
Cocktail endangerment no more!
By PINK LADY
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Welcome to the Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) Boston's corner of the Dig, where our goal is to turn you on to a totally different breed of cocktail.
LUPEC Boston is a classic cocktail society dedicated to breeding, raising and releasing nearly extinct drinks into the wild (aka Greater Boston bars and restaurants). We are 11 cocktail enthusiasts who meet once a month to sample delicious cocktail creations from a bygone era and educate ourselves about the important and virtually forgotten forebroads who sipped them.
In addition to preserving our own personal joie de vivre at monthly meetings, we strive to enhance and improve the lives of Boston-area women through fundraising events for local women's charities. We do this by throwing coed cocktail parties (damn good ones) all over town. Read about them here first.
This column has been conceived as a weekly dispatch designed to educate Bostonians about drinks invented before chemical preservatives made Sour Apple Pucker possible—when every ounce of juice in your cocktail shaker was fresh; when whiskey and gin ruled and cocktails enhanced the natural flavors of spirits, rather than overriding them—drinks that are on the fast track to extinction in this modern era of drinking.
Our mission: to help a new generation of modern drinkers put down their Chocolate Martini and pick up a Pink Lady.
Cin-cin!
PINK LADY COCKTAIL
1.5 ounces gin
0.5 ounces applejack
0.5 ounces fresh lemon juice
0.5 ounces grenadine (preferably homemade)
1 egg white
Combine ingredients in a shaker and shake vigorously without ice. Add ice; continue vigorous shaking. Strain into your favorite vintage cocktail glass.
LEARN HOW TO MAKE GRENADINE AND WHAT WE MEAN BY "SHAKE VIGOROUSLY" AT LUPECBOSTON.BLOGSPOT.COM
