Painting Auction – Rosemary’s Baby

This cocktail is called Rosemary’s Baby. Coincidentally, Clay and I just watched a prequel to the 1968 movie of the same name, called “Apartment 7A”, also set in 1968. It wasn’t half bad. Nor is the drink.

There are many different recipes for this cocktail, but here’s the one I used:

3 oz vodka

juice of one (Meyer) lemon

1 oz simple syrup

2 oz sparking water

1 small sprig fresh rosemary

Ice to fill glass half-way

Start with filling your glass half-way with ice. Add vodka, simple syrup and lemon juice. Cover with metal shaker-tin and shake vigorously. Pour contents into shaker tin (setting now-chilled glass on the side) and add sparkling water to mixture in shaker tin (do not shake); then pour entire contents slowly into chilled glass and add rosemary sprig.

Rosemary’s Baby
7 x 5″ oil on panel