Recipe by Elizabeth Kurtz

Purim Cocktails

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Parve Parve
Easy Easy
5 Servings
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Ingredients

Hard Lemonade

  • 2 cups water

  • 1 cup sugar

  • ice, as needed

  • 1 cup fresh lemon juice

  • 4 ounces vanilla vodka

  • 1 lemon, sliced into rings

  • fresh mint, for garnish

Red Sangria

  • 1/2 cup orange juice

  • 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice

  • 1/3 cup sugar

  • 1 (750-milliliter) bottle red wine, preferably a Merlot, such as Shiloh Secret Reserve Merlot, or Burgundy but you can use what you have

  • 1 lemon, thinly sliced

  • 1 small orange, thinly sliced

  • 1 cup other sliced mixed fruit, pineapple, cranberries, apples or pears

  • ice, as needed

White Sangria

  • 2 (750-milliliter) bottles white wine, such as Sauvignon Blanc (choose Bartenura Prosecco Brut or Moscato d’Asti to make it bubbly)

  • 1 and 1/2 cups sugar

  • 2 lemons, thinly sliced

  • 2 limes, thinly sliced

  • 1 red apple, thinly sliced

  • 1 (1-liter) bottle lime seltzer

  • 1 (1-liter) bottle lemon seltzer

  • 1 cup frozen green grapes (freeze more than you need; they’re great for snacking!)

  • ice, as needed

Cranberry Champagne Cocktail

  • 2 cups fresh cranberries, frozen at least overnight

  • 2 cups cranberry juice

  • 1 (750 milliliter) bottle Champagne Barons de Rothschild or other Champagne, chilled

  • 4 limes (optional)

Directions

Prepare Hard Lemonade

1.

To make sugar syrup, bring water and sugar to a simmer in a small saucepan over high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and let cool.

2.

Fill a large pitcher with ice. Add sugar syrup, lemon juice, vodka, and lemon slices.

3.

Pour into serving glasses and garnish with mint. Serve immediately.

Notes:

Makes 5 servings

Prepare Red Sangria

1.

Combine orange juice, lemon juice and sugar in a large pitcher, stirring to dissolve. Add wine and fruit and stir. Chill until ready to serve. Add ice before serving.

Notes:

Makes 1 large pitcher

Prepare White Sangria

1.

Combine wine, sugar, lemons, limes, and apple in a large pitcher. Stir and chill. Before serving, add seltzer and grapes.

2.

Gently stir, add ice and pour into glasses to serve.

Notes:

Makes 12 servings

Prepare Cranberry Champagne Cocktail

1.

Fill each glass with one-fourth-cup frozen cranberries or ice. Then add one-fourth-cup cranberry juice to each glass.

2.

Top with champagne and a squeeze of lime juice. Garnish with lime wedge.

Notes:

Serves 8

Credits

Photography by Chay Berger

Purim Cocktails

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