Ingredients
- 3 ruby red grapefruit, plus 4 grapefruit slices
- 6 ounces vodka
- Simple syrup, recipe follows
- Sugar
Directions
Juice the grapefruits and divide the juice among 4 glasses. Add 1 1/2 ounces of vodka to each glass. Add desired amount of simple syrup to sweeten the drink. Stir well.
Dip the grapefruit slices in sugar, to coat. Place 1 sugar dipped grapefruit slice on the rim of each glass.
Simple Syrup:
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
Combine the water and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring the water just to a boil and boil until the sugar dissolves, but the mixture does not get any color. Remove from the heat and let cool. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
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By SouthernFried22
NYC
on February 27, 2011
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This recipe isn't in the slightest the Hemingway cocktail. The correct Hemingway cocktail is exactly as listed in Preiss's comment except he forgot 1.5 oz of white rum. Great presentation when served with a brandied cherry.
Exact recipe as follows:
1.5 oz white rum
1/2 oz grapefruit juice (fresh is best
3/4 oz lime (fresh
3/4 oz simple syrup
"Ernest Hemingway needed a bathroom.
Or so the story goes. The novelist had stopped into Havana’s El Floridita bar, not far from the hotel where he lived during much of the 1930s. On his way out, he noticed the bartender setting up Daiquiris. Never one to walk past a drink, Hemingway took a sip. Not bad, he said, but he preferred them with no sugar and double the rum. The bartender made one as specified, and then named the drink after him."
By preiss_11820606
on April 22, 2009
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1/4 oz Luxardo maraschino liqueur
1/2 oz grapefruit juice
3/4 oz lime juice
3/4 oz simple syrup
The drink is all wrong as you mix it. The original is made with Luxardo Mataschino
By cseim
Austin, TX
on April 14, 2006
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I did this the lazy way and just sprinkled some sugar in rather than making the simple syrup, but I had the sweetest grapefruit to begin with. What a very nice and refreshing drink.
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