Rosemary Martinis Recipes

ROSEMARY MARTINIS

Steps:

• At least 1 day before serving, combine the olives and chopped rosemary in a small dish and pour over some of the brine from the olive jar to cover. Cover and refrigerate.
• About 1 hour before serving, rub the sprig of rosemary between the palms of your hands for 10 to 15 seconds and put it in a cocktail pitcher. Pour the gin and vermouth over, stir to mix, and refrigerate.
• Just before serving, add a generous handful of ice cubes to the pitcher and stir gently for a minute to give it an extra dose of chill. Pour the martini into stemless martini glasses, leaving the ice behind in the pitcher. Very briefly rinse the olives to remove any clinging rosemary and spear 2 each onto cocktail picks or small rosemary sprigs (with lower leaves removed), adding a pick to each glass.

ROSEMARY GIMLET

Steps:

• Rosemary Simple Syrup:In a small saucepan, bring 1/2 cup water, sugar, and rosemary to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Let stand 30 minutes, then strain; discard solids. Refrigerate in an airtight container up to 1 week. (Makes 1/2 cup.)
• Cocktail:Combine gin, lemon juice, and 3/4 ounce syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill halfway with ice. Shake until outside of shaker is frosty, about 30 seconds. Strain and serve, garnished with rosemary.

ROSEMARY MARTINI

Steps:

• Skewer the tomato with a sprig of rosemary.
• Place vodka, vermouth and other sprig of rosemary in a cocktail shaker, half filled with ice.
• Shake vigorously and strain into chilled martini glass.
• Garnish with rosemary-skewered tomato.

RUTH CHRIS'S RASPBERRY ROSEMARY MARTINI

Steps:

• Ill cocktail shaker with ice. Add muddled raspberries and everything but garnish.
• Shake well and strain into chilled martini glass.
• Pierce 2 raspberries onto rosemary sprig . Put into drink and serve.

ROSEMARY PEAR MARTINI

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients in a shaker with cracked ice. Shake virgorously.
• Strain into martini glass.

OLIVE-ROSEMARY MARTINI

Steps:

• To make, shake 2 ounces gin and 2 teaspoons dry vermouth with crushed ice; strain into a stemmed glass. Strip leaves from bottom 2 inches of a rosemary sprig, skewer through pitted olives, and add to the drink.