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Directions:In a blender, mix the first 4 ingredients until thoroughly combined, if necessary, add more mint for desired taste, set aside.
Fill cocktail glass to top with ice.
Pour a shot (or more) of desired liquor.
Fill almost to the top with club soda.
Top off the drink with 1-2 tablespoons of Bootleg mixture. |
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Notes: This is a MN original. Excerpt of the Bootleg story is below:
There's a surprising amount of variation in Bootleg recipes, considering it's such a simple drink. For the citrus component, some use fresh-squeezed juice, while others use concentrate. Most recipes call for lemonade or a lemonade-limeade blend, though a few use sweet-and-sour mix. Sometimes the mint is muddled, other times it's blended. A couple of the clubs make each drink individually, but most make up batches of the mint-citrus mix ahead of time. The most common version of the Bootleg is served in a pint glass filled with ice, though a few clubs blend the drinks until they're slushy.
Jim Sargent told me that in the early days, Bootlegs were mixed with gin, but that today the alcohol of choice tends to be vodka. Some people, he said, add bourbon or rum. "People mix Chardonnay with it, believe it or not," he noted. And the virgin version? It's called Bootade, of course.
The Bootleg's refreshing nature makes it similar to a daiquiri, a margarita, or a mint julep, though it's probably most closely related to a mojito or the Southsider, a popular East Coast drink suspected to have originated during Chicago's gangster days. One of the Bootleg's defining characteristics is its ability to mask the taste of the alcohol entirely—an important quality if the drink indeed originated during Prohibition, as most drinkers could only get their hands on rotgut alcohol. The Bootleg can get a little "dangerous," more than one manager noted. "You can't taste the alcohol in 'em," George Carroll said. "And it's possible to drink too many on a hot summer day and not know what's going.
PS Jim likes it will Dark Rum
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