{"id":411442,"date":"2010-03-10T08:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2010-03-10T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:33:58","slug":"yuzu-drops-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411442","title":{"rendered":"Yuzu Drops, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2757\" title=\"photo-10\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/16-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo-10\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>Last weekend a friend and I got together and cooked for a mutual friend&#8217;s birthday party. It was one of those turning-of-the-odometer birthdays, so we went all out. I was charged with inventing a cocktail, and since I&#8217;m a fiend for the flavor of yuzu &#8212; i.e., Asian citron &#8212; I came up with this concoction.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a jar of Korean citron tea &#8212; basically a yuzu marmalade that is meant to be stirred into hot water for a beverage. Instead, I pureed the contents of the jar with the juice of 4 large lemons and double strained it, first through a sieve and then through cheesecloth, to get rid of all the fine bits of rind.<\/p>\n<p>A shake in a shaker with some nice, botanical-forward gin, a few drops of Fee Brothers orange bitters and some ice, and we had one helluva cocktail. I really love the unique perfumed tang of yuzu, which is like lemon and jasmine combined.<\/p>\n<p>You can get the citron tea at any large Asian market and the bitters at any good liquor store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend a friend and I got together and cooked for a mutual friend&#8217;s birthday party. It was one of those turning-of-the-odometer birthdays, so we went all out. I was charged with inventing a cocktail, and since I&#8217;m a fiend for the flavor of yuzu &#8212; i.e., Asian citron &#8212; I came up with this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}