NEUTRAL GROUND

 

NEUTRAL GROUND

1 ½ ounce limoncello

1 ½ ounce peach schnapps

1 ounce sour mix

 Hubby and I were chilling like Switzerland tonight with our NEUTRAL GROUND cocktails. That’s the country itself in the background in the picture. The recipe for the NEUTRAL GROUND came from In the Land of Cocktails, a book with some great cocktail recipes from New Orleans. It’s named after New Orleans’ original neutral ground on Canal Street — the grassy strip in the middle of the road. Back when the French and the Americas were fighting over the Crescent City, that grassy strip was the neutral ground where the two groups could do some business without either one of them having an advantage.

 

 

To make the NEUTRAL GROUND cocktail, start by buying some limoncello — a lemon Italian liqueur. Price can make a big difference in taste, so I suggest you don’t skimp on the limoncello. Take that limoncello, some peach schnapps and some sour mix, and put them all into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake it up and strain it into a martini glass. Garnish with a slice of lemon.

The garnish fits the lemony NEUTRAL GROUND cocktail well. Hubby thought it tasted like a perfume bottle fell into lemonade, but I liked it. Sure, it was sour, but it was also soothing and distinctively delicious. It is a cocktail you can drink all night, and if you have to pucker later, you will be all set. And, quite frankly, I just love holding a martini glass. It could be filled with M & M s, jellybeans, a dirty martini, a peach martini, whatever. And now I’ve added the NEUTRAL GROUND cocktail to the list. Good luck with hurricane Issac New Orleans - hang on tight to your cocktails!

 

Drink Up^

Cocktail Connie