Legend has it that a bartender at Chasen's, the famous West Hollywood gathering place for entertainment luminaries, created the eponymous cocktail for "Little Curly Top," the star ofBright Eyes,Little Miss Marker, andThe Littlest Rebel. Necessarily nonalcoholic, the drink's appeal to children may lie in the brightly colored, candy-sweet maraschino cherry garnish.
Ingredients
Makes 1 drink
2 tablespoonsGinger Syrup
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
Seltzer
Dash ofPomegranate Syrup
Maraschino cherry, for garnish
Fill a tall glass with ice. Add the ginger syrup and orange juice, and pour in enough seltzer to fill the glass. Add a dash of the pomegranate syrup, garnish with the cherry, and serve.
Reprinted with permission fromMake Your Own Soda: Syrup Recipes for All-Natural Pop, Floats, Cocktails, and Moreby Anton Nocito with Lynn Marie Hulsman. Copyright © 2013 by Anton Nocito; photographs copyright © 2013 by Alexandra Grablewski. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisherAnton Nocitois the founder of P&H Soda Co., an all-natural soda syrup company located in Brooklyn, New York. Nocito is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute and was an executive sous chef within the Union Square Hospitality Group, as well as other restaurants in New York City and Long Island.
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