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Mike Capoferri, Thunderbolt, Los Angeles

Liquid Picnic cocktail recipe

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What goes in it

Method · Built

  1. 1Combine everything in a bottle, cap it and chill in the freezer for about five hours, pulling it before ice crystals form.
  2. 2Pour into a chilled Nick & Nora, express a lemon peel over the top and discard it.
Glass
Nick & Nora
Ice
Up
Garnish
Expressed lemon peel, discarded

Prep ahead

House prep

Tomato Water

Keeps
3 days
Storage
Refrigerated

Ingredients

  • Ripe tomatoes, quartered
  • Salt, 1% of the tomatoes' weight

Method

  1. 1Blend the tomatoes with the salt until broken down, then strain through a fine-mesh strainer repeatedly until clear.

About the Liquid Picnic

Liquid Picnic is a Martini-style cocktail made with london dry gin, citron liqueur and tomato water, created by Mike Capoferri at Thunderbolt.

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