Mocktails

by Caroline Hwang

This visually-driven cookbook features fabulous mocktails to satisfy any taste, occasion, or season. The 80+ drinks are based on fruits, herbs, spices, syrups—fresh ingredients and bright flavors like ginger, citrus, turmeric, berries, hibiscus, persimmon, coconut, mint, and matcha—and span refreshing options like coolers, spritzes, and juices to warming punches, toddies, and teas. Learn the building blocks of crafting a perfect drink, from the essential tools—including the shakers and strainers found in any home bar—and unique and customizable made-from-scratch simple syrups, shrubs, purees, sugars, and salts. A visual guide to mocktail necessities distills the key components to choose from to build a stellar the base; some sweetness; fruits & vegetables; fresh herbs & flowers; acid; dried spices & flowers; teas & coffee; garnishes, and ice. Beautiful color photography showcases the ingredients and elements of each drink, along with the luscious finished concoction. Sample recipes Lychee-tini Pineapple Mint Spritz Thai Daiquiri Lavender Bubbly Cherry Vera Cucumber Elderflower Fizz Blueberry Cardamom Smash Sumac Sour Hibiscus Lime Slush Coconut-Turmeric Rejuvenator Blood Orange Creamsicle Turmeric, Apple & Ginger Chai Persimmon Nog Pomegranate Apple Spiced Cider

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food and Drink

195 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 9, 2018

Reviews

[Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’d been looking for some resources for nonalcoholic elixirs recently during my mixologist partner’s pregnancy, and found Mocktails to be a useful resource for making elaborate mixed drinks without the booze. I’d been looking for some riffs on popular cocktail types and Caroline Hwang’s work fusing bright, aromatic syrups and juices for a refreshing or stimulating effect. Working with shrubs, fresh fruit and herbs, and even salt and spice mixes, Mocktail includes vibrant drinks in which you can hardly miss the booze (well, mostly anyway). With a seasonal focus, arranging her libations to complement spring through winter tastes, Hwang provides some great advice ways to keep having fun beverages during those periods when my partner had to abstain. Arranging her recipes in Mocktails with dynamic, simple photos listing each ingredient visually in addition to textually, which I found particularly useful and my favorite visually of the NA works I read.

I recommend other resources for crafting global cocktails at Harris' Tome Corner, here.

[Erin Caldwell · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really want to like this cookbook but it's pretty impractical. every single recipe has extremely unusual ingredients, such as fresh borage leaves, allspice simple syrup, conifer needles, kumquat marmalade, wild fennel, sugar, black currant juice, etc.

it would be great to have these things to hand, but frankly, I don't know where to even get them and I live in a major city. I certainly don't have them laying around my pantry when I'm feeling like a mocktail.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers a completed drink with visuals of the ingredients for every single recipe, how refreshing! There are riffs on classic cocktails and completely new ones. Both warm and cold mocktails are featured. I look forward to trying some.

[EJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a modern, visually elegant book with PHOTOS for each refreshing concoction.... great for most of us who need that level of both inspiration and instruction to risk attempting DIY potions. Enough said.

[Mary Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clear and simple ingredients and nice recipes to explore during hot days.
Tasty and good for the soul!
Good choice and good book to have in the kitchen.

[Tyna · Rating 3 out of 5]

May increase my rating as I sample a few. Planning on trying my hand for a bookclub gathering.

[Allana · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5
(how do you give a cookbook 5 stars?)
The recipes in this book were a great mix of classic and innovative drinks and overall very simple to put together. Most importantly, the organization and photography were *chef's kiss* perfect. So clear, helpful and aesthetic. If you enjoy delicious, natural drinks, definitely check this one out.

ps does anyone know where the hell I can get fresh borage flowers???
I wish they included where to find certain rare or hard to find ingredients so I rounded down.

[Kiera Beddes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful recipe book to make a large variety of mocktails. I’m excited to try these!