Highballs and long drinks · Amaro
Ruby red, fizzy and just sweet enough, with a gentle bitter backbone that makes you want another sip. With Aperol it is barely stronger than a soft drink, so it suits long lunches and festive tables heavy with food.
¾ oz
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½ oz
grenadine ideally homemade from pomegranate juice
¼ oz
lime juice freshly squeezed
6¾ oz
soda water well chilled
2 dash
orange bitters (optional)e.g. Angostura · Regans' Orange Bitters · Fee Brothers · The Bitter Truth
Garnish: Lime wheel · Ice: Ice cubes
Shirley Temple Black
Bittersweet orange and pomegranate with bright lime and plenty of fizz. Very light, especially with Aperol; Campari makes it drier and more bitter.
The original Shirley Temple is an alcohol-free drink of ginger ale or lemon-lime soda with grenadine and a cherry, named after the Hollywood child star of the 1930s. Several Los Angeles restaurants have claimed to have created it for her, and none of the claims can be settled with certainty.
Shirley Temple Black was the name the actress used after her marriage, and later during her career as a US diplomat. The name has been borrowed for several adult versions of her drink. This one swaps the ginger ale for soda water and adds an Italian bitter aperitivo, which turns the sweet original into a light spritz-style long drink.
It is a modern home-bar recipe rather than a historic classic, and it works best when the grenadine is real pomegranate syrup.
The classic Shirley Temple is alcohol free. The Black version adds an alcoholic ingredient, here Aperol or Campari.
No. With Aperol and plenty of soda it is a very light drink, around 3 percent alcohol.
Aperol is sweeter, more orange and lower in alcohol. Campari is more bitter and stronger.
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