A review of my week not working: Enjoyable. I have accomplished gloriously little, thus confirming my belief that Samuel Johnson was completely correct in stating that every man is, or hopes to be, an idler. I also created a delicious & simple ESSENCE of LEMONADE, created with: 1 cup lemon juice (I used lemon juice), 2/3 cup sugar (I used turbinado), and 1/2 cup ginger liqueur (I used homemade), the former two ingredients to be made into a syrup and added to the latter one, the resulting combination to be added in smallish quantities along with water tonic, seltzer, or still to ice.
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Sounds tasty. Perhaps you'll grow up into a professional confectioner of libations.
Posted by: dave zacuto | July 22, 2005 at 08:40 PM
I'm never going to grow up if I can help it.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 23, 2005 at 12:11 AM
How do you homemake the ginger liqueur? The short list of ingredients on the (still) local ginger ale makes me think that it ought to be easy to homemake.
Posted by: Matt Weiner | July 23, 2005 at 12:46 PM
Ginger ale is pretty easy to make, and I have, in fact, made some, using this recipe.
I made the ginger liqueur by letting a whole lot of grated ginger steep in a bottle's worth of 100 proof vodka for about a month, maybe 6 weeks, and then sweetening it with some simple syrup.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 23, 2005 at 02:28 PM
envy envy
Posted by: text | July 23, 2005 at 04:05 PM