Make-Ahead Mondays are Back!
Make-ahead Mondays are back for SSJ Advent 2023. This year, on Monday evenings, we’re mostly in the kitchen, making bevvies, preserves, and baked goods for gift-giving and for weekend parties ahead.
Cocktail Fixings!
Today, we’ll be making two recipes new to SSJ: Raspberry Cocktail Syrup and SSJ Signature Small Batch Cocktail Onions. And we’ll be recreating two SSJ Classics: House Gin, and Kahlua.
The raspberry syrup recipe is printed below, as it is acceptable for all ages. We’ll be using this later this week for easy non-alcoholic sodas and our spin on a famous old-school cocktail. (Stay tuned!)
But first, here are links to the Cocktail Onions, House Gin, and Kahlua. [These are all coded as age 19+ content – the legal drinking age in Ontario, Canada – and require you to enter a birth-date once in a 24-hour period before perusing.]
SSJ Raspberry Cocktail Syrup
SSJ Raspberry Cocktail Syrup
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups raspberries
- 1 tbs lemon juice
Instructions
- Bring the two cups of sugar, 1 cup of water, and 1 tbsp lemon juice to boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Add the raspberries and bring back to a boil, mashing slightly with a potato masher, dart-shaped-ground-beef-masher, or fork.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low simmer and simmer the syrup uncovered for approximately 15 minutes.
- Place a piece of cheesecloth over a fine sieve and strain the syrup into a clean container, reserving the seeds.*
- Allow the syrup to cool and then funnel into decorative glass bottles or jars with tight-fitting lids.
- Refrigerate sealed bottles for 1-2 weeks.
- *Reserved sweetened raspberry seeds make for a delicious yogurt topper. They also taste great mixed into a vinaigrette for salads. Skip any other sweetener in your dressing, here!
Notes
ON THIS DAY
2022: Cozy Sunday Supper Micro Cookbook Club
2021: St. Lawrence Market & St. Nicholas Eve
2020: Family Card Games & DIY Holiday Bridge Mix
2019: Make Clementine’s Crullers and Write a Holiday Haiku
2018: Adopt and Invent an Animal
2017: Spiced Finishing Salts 4 Ways: Za’atar, Harissa, Herbes de Provence, Ras el Hanout
2016: Plan Christmas Dinner and Make Dorie Greenspan’s Speculoos Buttons from Bon Appétit
2015: Donate to the WWF
2014: Draw Fresh Blueprints of Santa’s Workshop and Make Our Famous Santa Baby Cookies
2013: Write a Holiday Story Inspired by a Work of Art
2012: Draw Blue-Prints of the House for Santa
2011: Gingerbread House
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