2012 is Leap Year and today is Leap Day!!
We have an extra day to put off preparing our taxes (yes!), and an extra day standing between us and summer (boo!). Just like the Olympics and Presidential elections (yeah, we get yet another day of political sniping, too), Leap Years come every four years. It also means it's time to dust off an old classic cocktail called, ingeniously enough, the Leap Year Cocktail. This cocktail was created by Harry Craddock for the Leap Year celebrations at the Savoy Hotel, London, on February 29, 1928. It is said to have been responsible for more proposals than any other cocktail ever mixed. All you single girls have fun!!!
Leap Year Cocktail
2 oz gin
½ oz sweet vermouth
½ oz Grand Marnier
¼ oz fresh lemon juice
Shake above ingredients with ice, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass, then garnish with a lemon twist, just so. It's a fine drink, though I don't think you'll be hemming and hawing for this drink over the next three years. But do enjoy it now at your own Leap Year celebration (you are going to be celebrating Leap Year, right?).
For a non-alcoholic version, try this yummy and healthy treat:
1 scoop of vanilla ice cream or plain yogurt
1 banana
1 tablespoon of peanut butter
1 cup of ice
Blend till frothy. Skip the garnish!
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