Drink · 3 min · Amounts not specified
Menthe frappé
Crème de menthe, soda, lime, crushed ice if you have it. A café drink. This is the green highball, not a grasshopper — no cream.
The sheet · 1 small glass · 3 min
easyWhy tonight. Crème de menthe, soda, lime, crushed ice if you have it. A café drink. This is the green highball, not a grasshopper — no cream.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- creme de menthe
- soda
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mint.
Method
- Fill the glass to the top with crushed ice before anything is poured. Frappé means the ice, not the drink.
- Crème de menthe poured over, then churned with a spoon until the glass frosts hard.
- A splash of soda and a squeeze of lime, which cuts the sweetness the classic version does not bother with.
- Serve it with a short straw and drink it fast. It is a digestif, not a session drink.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
The technique underneath this
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- creme de menthe
- Aggressive, cold and sweet, and it is very easy to make a drink taste like toothpaste.
- soda
- Carbonation is a texture and it is the first thing you lose.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Next
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