Vodka Anyone?

Vodka may not seem the most obviously useful ingredient in the cocktail cupboard, in the sense that it is typically just a neutral, coulourless spirit that at most can only add a further shot of alcohol to a mixed drink. However, many of the modern cocktails are based on the principle of blending a range of different, often exotic fruit flavours over an alcohol base that doesn’t interfere with the taste of them. If there are surprisingly few vodka cocktails from the classic era, that is because vodka wasn’t then generally commercially available.

Grape Vodka Froth
	Ingredients
	1 1/2 oz. Vodka 1 oz. Grape Juice 1 oz. Lemon Juice 1 Egg White
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