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The Molotov - Cocktail Recipe

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Ingredients

  • 1 oz of Triple Sec
  • 1 twist of oranges
  • 1 dash of Rose's lime juice (alt: lime juice)
  • 2 of dropsred food coloring (alt: caramel food coloring)
  • 2 oz of Absolut Citron Vodka (alt: citrus-infused vodka)
  • 2 of twists lemons (alt: lemon)

Instructions

Fill a mixing glass 1/2 with ice, pour the vodka, triple sec, lime, food coloring into the mixing glass and stir.

Seperately in a chilled cocktail glass, squeeze a lemon, discard twist and ignite, then smother the flames with a damp clean rag. Stir contents of the mixing glass into this cocktail glass, and garnish with a (clean) spent rifle casing (optional).

Squeeze 1 lemon and 1 orange twist on top of drink, toast with a friend, ignite, smother with damp rag and enjoy.

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