{"id":687495,"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.com\/index\/687495","title":{"rendered":"Yuzu Drops, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2757\" title=\"photo-10\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/16-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" 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":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SQD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}