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Celebrate the holiday season with a Bond
girl inspired cocktail, because Christmas only comes
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Bond Girl Cocktails
25th December 2009
Back in 1962, Sean Connery’s request
for a “martini, shaken not stirred” made with
vodka helped change how people made 007’s favourite cocktail—from
using traditional gin to making it vodka-based. Over the course
of the last 22 films, many Bond Girls have inspired their own
drinks too. Here is a small selection of recipes from the MI6
bar tending division to help you celebrate any occasion.
The Christmas Jones
Inspired by the nuclear scientist played by Denise
Richards in 1999's "The
World Is Not Enough", this festive vodka-based drink begins with a blend
of fruit flavor and is topped off with Sprite or 7-Up for a little fizz,
then garnished
with fresh mint. This recipe makes two highball drinks.
Ingredients
4 fresh strawberries
1 part vodka
2 tsp superfine sugar
5 oz pineapple juice
Sprite / 7-Up
Mint sprigs for garnish |
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Method
1. In a blender, whiz the vodka, strawberries, sugar
and pineapple juice together.
2. Pour the mix equally into two highball glasses.
3. Top with Sprite or 7-Up.
4. Garnish with a sprig of mint.
5. Serve with a smattering of puns and bad Christmas jokes.
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The Kissy Suzuki
This recipe, inspired by the character played by Mie
Hama in the
1967 outing "You Only Live Twice", fills two highball glasses
and is a wonderful mix of raspberry, cranberry
and
apple flavors
with
a strawberry
for a compliment.
Ingredients
3 Tbsp raspberry puree
1 part vodka
3 Tbsp cranberry juice
5 oz cloudy apple juice
Sprite / 7-Up
Fresh strawberries for garnish
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Method
1. Pour the vodka, raspberry puree, cranberry juice,
and apple juice into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain equally into two highball glasses half-filled with ice cubes.
4. Top with Sprite/7-Up.
5. Garnish with strawberries.
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The May Day
Like the character played by Grace
Jones in 1985's "A View
To A Kill", this one is a complex and hard work, but
comes good in the end. It is a blend of fresh fruit
flavors with a rum and
apple juice
base.
This recipe
makes two
highball
drinks.
Ingredients
2 ripe peaches, pitted and roughly chopped
1 part rum
4 strawberries, cubed
Flesh and seeds of 2 passion fruit
4 oz cloudy apple juice
1 Tbsp superfine sugar
2 tsp grated fresh ginger
Crushed ice
Apple fans for garnish |
Method
1. Blend all the ingredients together with crushed ice.
2. Pour the mix equally into two highball glasses.
3. Garnish with an apple fan.
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The Vesper
In Casino Royale, Bond transforms the martini from a staid, traditional
gin drink into a more complex and refined libation. The addition
of his favourite vodka and white wine vermouth created a signature
beverage so worthy he named it Vesper, after his first true love.
You'll understand his passion once you shake this cocktail (please
don't stir it) with Smirnoff Vodka, a vodka ten times filtered for
extraordinary clarity.
Ingredients
1/3 oz Smirnoff Vodka
1 oz Gordon's Gin
Splash of White Wine Vermouth
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Method
Pour all the ingredients into an ice filled shaker. Shake well and strain into
a chilled cocktail glass.
MI6 reminds all readers to drink responsibly.
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