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spiced pear tito’s with Honeyed Rosé Spritz
Created by JUSTIN ELLIOT Volstead Lounge
Spiced Pear Tito’s:
• ½ Tahitian vanilla bean • fill remainder with Tito’s In large glass jar place: • one ripening Bartlett pear In a ½-cup mason jar place: and one ripening Bosc pear per liter of Tito’s • 4 tbsp dried orange peel In a 2-cup mason jar • 1 pinch gentian place: • 1 pinch wormwood • 2 tbsp juniper • fill remainder with Tito’s • 1 tsp grains of paradise Let all steep for a week, • 4 tsp inner regularly agitating. Strain cardamom seed all through cheesecloth. • 4 tbsp green Blend infusions to taste. cardamom pods We used 7L Tito’s for the • 5 dried hibiscus flowers pear infusion, about ¾ of the spiced infusion, and • 4 cinnamon sticks all of the bitter orange infusion. Photo ©2011, Elizabeth Bellanti
Honeyed Rosé:
Slowly simmer 1 ¹⁄8 lbs Texas wildflower honey into 1L Tuscan Rosé until dissolved.
build the cocktail:
• 1oz Spiced Pear Tito’s • 1oz Honeyed Rosé Blend Spiced Pear Tito’s and Honeyed Rosé over ice, top with soda water, and garnish with a lemon peel.
Fifth Generation, Inc., Austin, Texas. 40% alcohol by volume. ©2011 Tito’s Handmade Vodka. TitosEdibleAd1011.indd 1
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