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Derby Days Celebrate Derby Day — or any day — with these racing-themed projects. From "Creative Juice" episode DCRJ-711

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Kentucky Derby Mint Juleps

Your guests will be champing at the bit for a taste of this delicious recipe. It's the ultimate derby drink: the mint julep.

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Kentucky Derby Mint Juleps

Ingredients:

2 c. sugar
2 c. water
fresh mint sprigs
crushed ice
Kentucky bourbon whisky
silver julep cups

1. Make a simple syrup by boiling sugar and water together for 5 minutes (figure A). Cool the syrup, pour it into a glass container with 6-8 sprigs of gently crushed fresh mint and refrigerate overnight (figure B).

Figure A

Figure B

2. Fill a julep cup with crushed ice, add 2 Tbsp. mint syrup and 2 oz. Kentucky bourbon whisky (figure C) (figure D). Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost the outside of the cup.

3. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint (figure E).

Figure C

Figure D

Figure E

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