Whats the best recipe for a mint julip?

My wife is a southern Belle who talks alot about Mint Julips but has no idea about how to make them. any takers?Whats the best recipe for a mint julip?Ingredients:

1/4 cup fresh mint leaves

2 cups water, heated

2 cups sugar

cracked ice

bourbon

Preparation:

First, make syrup:

Heat water. Whisk in sugar. Remove from heat. Add mint %26amp; allow to steep for at least 20 minutes.

For each Mint Julep:

Add cracked ice to Julep tumbler or glass. Add 1 1/2 oz Bourbon. Add 2 1/2 teaspoons syrup. Stir lightly. Garnish with fresh mint leaf. Mint Juleps are traditionally served with two short straws.Whats the best recipe for a mint julip?
I like a drop of simple syrup (sugar %26amp; water boiled) bruised mint sprigs, crushed ice, my favorite bourbon-Basl Hayden's, or Ancient Age ten year old-- decorate the top with a mint sprig or two. If in a glass-frost it. Wet it, roll it in ice until it mists up- or best, a pewter Julep cup. Add a very short straw so she must dip her face in the mint. Voila!!!! Heaven!!!!

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Simple syrup. If you have a proper muddler you don't need granulated sugar.. the syrup will dissolve in the cold liquid better.

Bourbon NOT WHISKEY.

Club Soda.

Muddler... The thing you use to crush the mint and lime. In a pinch to can use the handle end of a wooden spoon, but it will take longer.



Crush about 10 mint leaves a in the bottom of your glass. You want pulverize the mint rather than just bruise it. Get a nice paste like thing going on.



Add a small amount (1 TBSP) of simple syrup to the glass to break up the leaves and get them unstuck from the bottle of the glass.



Add 1.5oz of Bourbon... or to taste.



Add your Ice.



Fill to rim with club soda and garnish with a few more mint leaves and a lime wedge.





The use of simple syrup instead of pure sugar allows for the sugar to dissolve into the beverage faster.



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Or you can watch Alton Brown from good eats make on here on Youtube... Unfortunately it is the last segment so you need to sit through about 9 of other stuff.Whats the best recipe for a mint julip?
In a small rocks glass muddle mint leaves in a mixture of sugar and a half ounce of Kentucky Bourbon.



Pour the mixture over ice in a Collins glass. Add 1 1/2 ounces of Kentucky Bourbon, a 1/4 ounce of white Creme De Menthe, fill with club soda.



Batman (Adam West) made a MojitoWhats the best recipe for a mint julip?4 fresh mint sprigs

2 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey

1 tsp powdered sugar

2 tsp water







Muddle mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water in a collins glass. Fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice and add bourbon. Top with more ice and garnish with a mint sprig. Serve with a straw.Whats the best recipe for a mint julip?
Excerpted from a long out of print book on the subject ( No Longer Copyrighted) :

The classic receipt for the Kentucky mint julep was published over half a century ago in Kentucky Whiskies. It was written by Soule Smith, lawyer, journalist, and superb raconteur of considerable local fame. In this famous receipt, the making of a mint julep becomes a ceremony. In loving and mellifluent language, the subtle blending of cold spring water with fragrant mint and good Bourbon whiskey and cracked ice somehow evokes the whole charm of the Blue Grass countryside. Here, then, is the famous receipt printed once again in a small illustrated edition for the delight of good Kentuckians everywhere.



THE MINT JULEP

But in the Blue Grass land there is a softer sentiment---a gentler soul. There is where the wind makes waves of the wheat and scents itself with the aroma of new-mown hay, there is no contest with the world outside. On summer days when, from his throne, the great sun dictates his commands, one may look forth across broad acres where the long grass falls and rises as the winds may blow it. He can see the billowy slopes far off, each heaving as the zephyrs touch it with a caressing hand. Sigh of the earth with never a sob, the wind comes to the Blue Grass. A sweet sigh, a loving one; a tender sigh, a lover鈥檚 touch, she gives the favored land. And the moon smiles at her caressing and the sun gives benediction to the lovers. Nature and earth are one---married by the wind and sun whispering leaflets on the happy tree.



Then comes the zenith of man鈥檚 pleasure. Then comes the julep---the mint julep. Who has not tasted one has lived in vain. The honey of Hymettus brought no such solace to the soul; the nectar of the Gods is tame beside it. It is the very dream of drinks, the vision of sweet quaffings. The Bourbon and the mint are lovers. In the same land they live, on the same food they are fostered. The mint dips its infant leaf into the same stream that makes the bourbon what it is. The corn grows in the level lands through which small streams meander. By the brook-side the mint grows. As the little wavelets pass, they glide up to kiss the feet of the growing mint, the mint bends to salute them. Gracious and kind it is, living only for the sake of others. The crushing of it only makes its sweetness more apparent. Like a woman鈥檚 heart, it gives its sweetest aroma when bruised. Among the first to greet the spring, it comes. Beside the gurgling brooks that make music in the pastures it lives and thrives.



When the Blue Grass begins to shoot its gentle sprays toward the sun, mint comes, and its sweetest soul drinks at the crystal brook. It is virgin then. But soon it must be married to Old Bourbon. His great heart, his warmth of temperament, and that affinity which no one understands, demand the wedding. How shall it be? Take from the cold spring some water, pure as angels are; mix it with sugar until it seems like oil. Then take a glass and crush you mint within it with a spoon---crush it around the borders of the glass and leave no place untouched. Then throw the mint away---it is a sacrifice.



Fill with cracked ice the glass; pour in the quantity of Bourbon which you want. It trickles slowly through the ice. Let it have time to col, then pour your sugared water over it. No spoon is needed, no stirring is allowed---just let it stand a moment. Then around the brim place sprigs of mint, so that the one who drinks may find a taste and odor at one draught.

When it is made, sip it slowly. August suns are shining, the breath of the south wind is upon you. It is fragrant, cold and sweet---it is seductive. No maiden鈥檚 touch could be more passionate. Sip it and dream, it is a dream itself. No other land can give so sweet a solace for your cares; no other liquor soothes you so in melancholy days. Sip it and say there is no solace for the soul, no tonic for the body like Old Bourbon whiskey.