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2. When drink is frozen, use a long spoon to mix it up so it’s slushy and smooth.The alcohol in the drink will prevent it from freezing solid so that you can easily break it up by stirring.

3. To make each drink, pour ½ ounce of Chambord into the bottom of 3 10½-ounce glasses—large martini glasses work well for this. Pour the frozen margarita over the liqueur and it will swirl itself into the drink.

4. Add a straw to each drink plus a lime wedge and serve.

• MAKES 3 10.5-OUNCE DRINKS.

SPIRITS: MIXERS

BEAU RIVAGE BLOODY MARY MIX

Why make a clone recipe for an obscure bloody mary mix from a Biloxi, Mississippi, casino? Because I’ve had every major bloody mary mix brand on the market and none can compare to this one. With other mixes I find myself doctoring up the drink with additional Tabasco or salt or Worcestershire sauce.That’s sure not the case here.This mix tastes great right out of the bottle, and it doesn’t even contain horseradish, which is commonly found in good bloody marys. Make this one soon and keep it handy.

1 6-ounce can tomato paste

2 cups water

1 12-ounce can V-8 vegetable

juice

cup distilled white vinegar

¼ cup Worcestershire sauce

2 teaspoons Lawry’s seasoned

salt

1¼ teaspoons ground black

pepper

½ teaspoon Tabasco

Combine all ingredients in a pitcher and stir well. Combine with vodka to make bloody mary cocktails.

• MAKES 1 QUART.

MARA SIMPLE SYRUP

Simple syrup will sometimes be needed to mix great-tasting drinks that require additional sweetening. Use enough of the clone recipes for cocktails in this book and you’ll eventually need to use some simple syrup.

½ cup hot water

½ cup sugar

Stir ingredients together until sugar is dissolved.

• MAKES APPROX. 7 OUNCES.

MR & MRS T MR & MRS T BLOODY MARY MIX

Here’s a way to clone the famous and very popular bloody mary mix from that couple with a letter for a last name. It’s a simple-to-make blend of tomato juice and spices with some prepared horseradish and canned jalapeño juice thrown in for a “spicier, zestier” drink. Mix this with vodka over ice and you’ve got a delicious cocktail. But if you’re not in the mood to get zoinked, this clone recipe is also a great way to kick up your tomato juice, just for drinking straight.

1 46-ounce can tomato juice

4 tablespoons lime juice

3 tablespoons juice from canned

jalapeños (nacho slices)

3 tablespoons vinegar

2 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoons prepared horseradish

¼ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

⅛ teaspoon onion powder

dash garlic

1. Combine all ingredients in a 2-quart pitcher. Store covered in the refrigerator.

2. Directions for mixing a drink, as per the original mix: “Add 3 parts Mr & Mrs T Rich & Spicy Bloody Mary Mix to 1 part vodka, gin, rum or tequila, over ice. Mr & Mrs T Rich & Spicy Bloody Mary Mix is also delicious by itself. Simply pour over ice and serve.”

• MAKES 52 OUNCES.

MR & MRS T SWEET & SOUR MIX

This clone recipe makes a little more of the popular sweet & sour mixer than you’ll get in the 34-ounce plastic bottles at the store. So now when you crave that frosty margarita or snappy whiskey sour and don’t have any sweet & sour mix on hand, you can whip together a batch of your own. Just mix this stuff, as you would the brand-name sweet & sour mix, in your favorite cocktails and party libations.

3 cups hot water

¾ cup bottled lime juice

½ cup corn syrup

¼ cup granulated sugar

¼ cup bottled lemon juice

1 drop yellow food coloring

Combine all ingredients in a 2-quart pitcher and mix until sugar is dissolved. Store covered in refrigerator.

• MAKES 40 OUNCES.

RESTAURANT-STYLE MAI TAI MIX

Use this in restaurant drink clones that require fresh mai tai mix. To make it you’ll need passion fruit nectar, which can be hard to find in some stores. In that case use passion fruit juice that’s blended with another juice, such as Mauna Lai Paradise Passion guava/passion fruit blend.

¼ cup orange juice

¼ cup pineapple