Looking for a homemade Christmas gift? Make this orange liqueur from Cross Country Cookery. It’s sure to please many people, and is ready in only two weeks. The recipe makes two pints. Print Orange Liqueur Ingredients 3 large navel oranges 3 cup vodka 1 1/2 cup superfine granulated sugar Instructions Pare very thinly the bright…
Liqueur
Smoked Orange Pate
This smoked orange pate is lovely accompaniment for Lillet, a fragrant French apertif wine lightly flavored with orange. Lillet is always served chilled. Although both red and blonde Lillet are available, blonde is always used in mixing cocktails unless red is specifically designated. Apertifs, Card 25 contains two drinks and one recipes. Copyright 1977 by Random House,…
Toasted Almond Mushroom Pate
The flavor of this meatless pate is surprisingly like that of the favored chicken liver mixture. Good served with crisp crackers or bread as a spread or as a dip for raw vegetables. Pate can be made several days ahead of time, covered and refrigerated. Quick and tasty. Makes 1 1/2 cups pate. Hot and…
Green Appetizer Salad with Lemon Mint Dressing
A crisp, colorful salad served in a handsome bowl makes a novel and nourishing cocktail-hour appetizer, and may serve as a first course, too. On informal occasions, when dinner is served “lap style,” prepare an extra-large salad and continue to serve it throughout the evening, right up to dessert. This is Apertifs, Card 22 from…
Cheese Beignets
These curiously shaped, crisp and chewy fritters serve as a most agreeable appetizer with any aperitif or cocktail, and provide a particularly harmonious accompaniment to the brandy-fortified, herb-scented flavors of vermouth. This recipe is on Card 21 – the first in the Apertif section. It is preceded by a divider card that explains the history…