Mint Juleps
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INGREDIENTS
  • Cooking Time: 10 mins
  • Servings: 8
  • Preparation Time: 15 mins
  • * 2 cups water
  • * 2 cups white sugar
  • * 1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh mint leaves
  • * 32 fluid ounces Kentucky bourbon
  • * 8 sprigs fresh mint leaves for garnish
DIRECTIONS
  1. # Combine water, sugar and chopped mint leaves in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. Allow syrup to cool, approximately 1 hour. Pour syrup through a strainer to remove mint leaves
  2. # Fill eight cups or frozen goblets with crushed ice and pour 4 ounces of bourbon and 1/4 cup mint syrup in each. (Proportions can be adjusted depending on each person's sweet tooth). Top each cup with a mint sprig and a straw. Trim straws to just barely protrude from the top of the cups. Serve juleps on a silver
  5. FOOTNOTE
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  8. If you are using silver goblets, place them in the freezer for at least half an hour before serving. Handle frozen goblets with a clean towel, holding them by their edges, so as not to mar the lovely frosted surface.