Transcript: Sweet Cream (Alberta Essential)

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Cocktails on the Fly
Episode “Sweet cream”

Alberta: Hi, on this flight I'm going to teach you how to make cocktail cream, it is simple it is easy, but there is a couple little tricks to it that make it fun. Now first of all you always use heavy whipping cream, never make a cocktail, never make a white Russian or an Irish coffee with milk or half-and-half always use heavy whipping cream. So all you have got to do is add a little bit of vanilla, I have got Madagascar are vanilla in their just put a little cap full, I'm going to put a little cap and a half.
OK and then a big pinch of raw sugar, I'm going to put into pinches just in case, there we go. And then you pour in your cream, you want to put in about 2 ounces or so, there we go because if you put in a smaller amount it will tend to coagulate more quickly and it will get to thick. The goal is that it just thickens up a little bit, you do not want it too thick or you have got a whipping cream on top of your cocktail and that is not it. The goal is for a nice thick, creamy feel.
And a little trick that my friend Matt G. and New York City taught me is you take the spring off of your Hawthorne strainer and you toss it in their, that helps things coagulate more quickly. And then you add a little bit of crushed ice to the mix, because the ice helps it from getting too thick too fast. It gives a little bit of dilution, chills a down a little bit, but it won’t let it go too far like if you put a full ice cube in there.
So put you’re mixing tin on there and hit it to create a seal, roll it around a little bit, and then shake. But don't shake too much just wait until you hear that ice starting to break down, you want to mix the sugar in there but you do not want it to get to thick. So that is what the ice helps you do, you hear it and you hear that is going through it is kind of diluting a little bit.
Here we go, so it is a little bit thick, you can see the thickness there, it is ready to make a white Russian or perhaps they Irish coffee, OK.
Cocktail cream; in a mixing glass add;
1. 1/2 of a teaspoon of vanilla.
2. Two pinches of raw sugar.
3. 2 ounces of heavy cream.
4. The spring from the Hawthorne strainer.
5. A bit of crushed ice.
6. Do some shaking.
7. Use and white Russians, and Irish coffee.
8. Delicious!