{"id":316,"date":"2004-05-09T01:12:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2009-06-12T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T00:14:37","slug":"pegu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/09\/pegu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail Recipe: Pegu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cocktail <a href=\"http:\/\/hotwired.wired.com\/cocktail\/blender\/recipes\/pegu_cocktail.html\">recipe<\/a> from Burma:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotwired.wired.com\/cocktail\/96\/16\/nc_drink.o.week.html\"><strong>Pegu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 parts gin<\/li>\n<li>1 part triple sec<\/li>\n<li>1 part lime juice<\/li>\n<li>2 dashes Angostura bitters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shake with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some notes: <\/p>\n<p>Always use fresh lime juice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotwired.wired.com\/cocktail\/\">Cocktail<\/a> recommends stirring this cocktail. Yet their write-up on stirring vs. shaking recommends shaking when dealing with &#8220;complex&#8221; ingredients, such as bitters. They also say &#8220;you almost never shake clear drinks,&#8221; but the Pegu is not a clear drink. Go ahead and shake it.<\/p>\n<p>Cocktail also recommends <a href=\"http:\/\/hotwired.wired.com\/cgi-bin\/back.cgi\/cocktail\/links\/cointreau.html?\/cocktail\/99\/15\/drink_o_week.html\">Cointreau<\/a>, but it&#8217;s bloody expensive ($40\/L). Regular triple sec is better bang for your buck ($11\/L), though if you have the cash, by all means go with Cointreau.<\/p>\n<p>Cocktail also lists 3 parts gin instead of 2. I have used the recipe above with pleasant results.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;ve frequently misquoted Cocktail by saying that the Pegu makes one surly. In point of fact, Cocktail says the Pegu makes them saucy. In my experience, you might get either result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cocktail recipe from Burma: Pegu 2 parts gin 1 part triple sec 1 part lime juice 2 dashes Angostura bitters Shake with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass. Some notes: Always use fresh lime juice. Cocktail recommends stirring this cocktail. Yet their write-up on stirring vs. shaking recommends shaking when dealing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-stuff","tag-cocktail-recipe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ssIKy-pegu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}