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Tenuous Links Drinks Day 2 - Two Turtle Doves

14/12/2014

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On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Two Turtle Doves
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Okay, so day 2 is looking a bit trickier. Nothing containing or featuring turtles or doves immediately springs to mind. A quick internet search though brings up a cocktail called a Turtle Dove;
2oz vanilla vodka
2 oz Frangelico
1 oz Amaretto
1 1/2 oz full fat milk
Shaken over ice and strained into a Martini glass.

Apart from the fact that it sounds like an alcoholic milkshake (one of my least favourite drinks - milkshakes that is, not alcohol!) it’s also not very imaginative.

Back to the drawing board then, or in this case google, to see what else I can find. 

Now doves are generally considered a symbol of love, so maybe that gives us something more promising to work with? Turns out it does.  The Phonecian goddess of love, Astarte, is said to have hatched from an egg, warmed by two turtledoves, on the banks of the Euphrates river. The source of the Euphrates is in Turkey (appropriately Christmassy I thought) where the national drink is the anise-flavoured Raki. 

Day 2 then in our Christmas countdown, Raki! Similar in style to Greek Ouzo or French Pastis, Raki is generally drunk diluted with cold water, turning it a milky white colour which the Turks call lion’s milk.  I’m not much of a Raki connoisseur I must confess so if anyone has any recommendations please share them.

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