2020 DLF Forum Cocktail/mocktail

Alcohol or Tea of Choice-  I will be using rum, but this recipe will work with most alcohol! I recommend dark or spiced rum, whiskey, or vodka. If you are making a spirit-free cocktail choose a tea that you like! Black tea will work best. I am going to work with Lapsang. Lapsang is notoriously smokey and will add that extra fall essence for this cocktail!

Pear Juice– I buy mine at my grocery store, you can certainly juice your own in a blender if you’d like, Asian pears will work best. 

Golden Raisin Syrup- Recipe below!

Lemon Juice

Start by making the golden raisin syrup. Regular raisins are fine and delicious, I am using golden for color. This simple syrup is fantastic to just have in the fridge as well, I drizzle some on some greek yogurt and nuts for dessert, add some to my morning tea, I even made a homemade apple cider and used this as the sweetener. It’s perfect for making a nice fall Old Fashioned as well! 

Golden Raisin Syrup Recipe

1 c. of golden raisins
1 c. of granulated white sugar
1 c. of water

In a small saucepan on medium heat, toast golden raisins in the pan. This will take a couple of minutes. Be careful to not let the raisins burn, we just want to toast them, so stir frequently. Once you see little brown marks on all sides of the raisins  (See picture below), add sugar and water to raisins, and move to low heat. Stir until sugar is dissolved.  Strain syrup from raisins and discard raisins. 

*this is more than a cup of raisins and in a much larger pan. I just wanted to show you the brown toasty spots on the raisins