Blindfold Night!

The object of 'Blindfold Night' was for each of us to create an original cocktail with a special ingredient that was unknown. As the bartender prepared his or her drinks, the rest of us donned our blindfolds and prepared to taste the creation. Amazing how difficult it can be to out your finger on a specific taste with so many tastes and scents competing.
Here are some photos and recipes of the drinks we came up with...








Recipes:

Arjen's: The Margaraita

(special ingredient: cucumber)
1/2 cup crushed cucumber
4 pinches cilantro
1 oz. simple syrup (sugar)
(crush together)
2 oz. tequilla
1 oz. triple sec
Shake over ice

Remco's: The Devil is Red

(special ingredients: Tabasco and mint)
prepare a few hours before:
80 grams strawberry
1/2 lime squeezed
Few mint leaves
Puree the above and run through a sieve
Pour into shaker
Add ice
Add dash of Tabasco
2 oz. vodka
Shake & pour
Add oz of tonic

Judith's: Round Trip from the Hague to Jakarta

(special ingredients: all!)

Ingredients for the bottom half:
500 ml full-fat milk
1/2 cup of Cuarenta Y Tres (Spanish vanilla flavoured liqueur)
6 cloves
6 pieces of star anise
2 sticks of cinnamon
2 tablespoons of sugar

Ingredients for the top half:
2 egg-whites
2 tablespoons of icing sugar
30 ml unsweetened blueberry or blackberry-juice
10 ml lemon juice

Preparation:
1. boil the milk, sugar and the three spices for about half an hour at the lowest possible heat. Let it cool, pass through a sieve and transfer to the fridge to chill for 6 hours.
2. separate two egg whites, mix with the icing sugar and whisk until you get stiff peaks. Then gently fold in the blackberry and lemon juice with a spoon.
3. just before serving mix the milk with half a cup of chilled Cuarenta Y Tres and pour into a glass spoon some of the egg-white mixture on top.
4. serve with a straw and a spoon, enjoy!

The place names of the cocktail refer to the top and the bottom half. The bottom half is flavoured with spices The Netherlands used to import from their former colony Indonesia, hence Jakarta (capitol of Indonesia) and the top half is an old fashioned desert topping from the Netherlands, known as Haagse Bluf, or Hagueish Bluff.

Jan Willem's: Reactor #3

(special ingredients: orange and whiskey)
30 mill. triple sec
60 mill. tequila
20 mill. lime juice
10 mill. orange juice
1 teaspoon scotch

Deana's: Honey, I Drank the Kids

(special ingredient: honey)
2 oz. gin
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon orange juice
1 tablespoon honey
Stir
Add ice
Shake
Pour and top with tonic