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Clarified watermelon tequila drink (imbibemagazine.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by RBWells@lemmy.world to c/cocktails@lemmy.world

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Ok so my garden is basically a watermelon patch right now, so I was interested in this as it uses one whole mini watermelon, but this says the juice lasts one day, the drink once clarified lasts months.

I guess I could freeze the rest, or simply make less, or since the final version keeps well, make more of that - but why does the recipe say to make so much more of the watermelon juice than one would use, if it doesn't keep?

Has anyone on here done milk clarifying, is it very fussy?

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 4 points 3 weeks ago

It says it's for seven servings, which seems an odd amount. Perhaps it's too much hassle to be worth making less?

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I made it. Doubled the recipe but it didn't yield twice as much as I am apparently not as good at clarifying. But it is good, maybe just a little too tart, and does look like the picture in the article. Certainly smooths out the tequila flavor - maybe more than I would like, actually. But will be nice to have such an interesting drink on hand, I was able to bottle a liter on top of today's drinks.