Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Squid Mixes: Tweety Bird

A tweety bird combines orange juice, grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, lemon-lime soda and bitter lemon soda with a pineapple garnish.  I got my recipe from Zero-Proof Cocktails by Liz Scott.  The author recommends the drink as a margarita substitute with Mexican or other Latin American fare.  I would go further and say the flavor is superior to most margaritas.

Zero-Proof is fun, more realistic than other mocktail books.  While Scott stresses that fresh juices are best she concedes that store-bought will do in a pinch.  She also makes suggestions for alcoholic additions for several recipes, though not this one. 

8 comments:

  1. That sounds interesting (especially with some rum added), but at what point does it just become fruit cocktail?

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    1. Add rum, and you could call it a drunk tweet! No joke, I've been hanging on to that pun for a month...

      I think you need pieces of actual fruit for a fruit cocktail. But then, at what point does a fruit cocktail become fruit salad? What is the solid-to-liquid tipping point?

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    2. When you can't drink it anymore?

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  2. Now that sounds so lovely and I could drink this one.

    cheers, parsnip

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