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Blossoms
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Sweet + STRONG + SUCCULENT
- Key Element: Thick
Lead Element: balance of Succulent and Strong- Pivotal Element: no subgenres
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Plain Blossoms if sweetened, are done so with plain, white sugar – or with simple syrup made of it and water.
Fancy Blossoms are sweetened, at least in part, by ingredients that have both sweetness, and other flavors.
Blossom Description
Sweet + STRONG + SUCCULENT
- Key Element: Thick
- Lead Element: balance of Succulent and Strong
- Pivotal Element: no subgenres
Blossoms are mixed drinkis in which alcoholic products are balanced with succulent juice.
There are no subgenres of Blossoms.
Blossom History
The elemental terminus post quem for the Blossom is currently in the year 1892 A.D.
The nominal terminus post quem for the name, Blossom, being attached to the type of drink is at the year 1911.
The Blossom came into prominence during Prohibition, and reached its zenith after repeal.
As can be seen above, the Great Admiral recipe published in 1892 was elementally a Blossom before that name had gained the understanding of generic specificity.
Observe that the Orange Blossom recipe published in the year 1906 does not yield a Blossom. It was named for the blossom of the orange tree. That drink seems almost to be a Cocktail, until the lack of bitters is considered. It does contain citrus zest, making it a Toddy.
By the year 1911, recipes for drinks with the name "Orange Blossom" appeared that contain enough juice to fit the Blossom genre.
It is interesting to consider how the Bronx Cockatil, a true Cocktail, came to be a Blossom by increasing the amount of orange juice. It is most-often made made as a Blossom today, though still called a Cocktail. In the years before the onset of Prohibition, the juicy variant had its own name, the Jazz, which could be accurately extended as "Jazz Blossom."
Immediately after the repeal of Prohibtion in the year 1933, sources indicate the Blossom had become a tyoe of drink, rather than an occasional moniker. During Prohibition is when that seems to have happened. Assuming that the illicit liquor served in Speakeasis was often of dubious quality, the Blossom would have been a good drink in which to obfuscate lack of quailty.
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