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Bees and Blossoms sounds like it might be a drink for spring, but Tammy Coxen with Tammy's Tastings says you can only get one of the ingredients during the winter.

One of the few things that I appreciate about winter is that we get this great influx¹ of really interesting citrus fruits, she said.

While you can get lemons, limes, grapefruits and oranges the rest of the year, now is the time you can find blood oranges at your grocer.

The red color of the blood orange really makes the cocktail² appealing, but sometimes blood orange juice is not all that red. Tammy uses Peychaud's bitters as a bit of insurance. Its bright pink color helps make the drink stand out and it also adds more flavor and some complexity³.

The blood orange might be a key ingredient in this cocktail, but its name comes from the elderflower flavored spirit, White Blossom Vodka from Valentine Distilling⁴ Company in Detroit (see our story about Valentine Distilling here) and the honey-derived Standard mead⁵ from Bl?m Meadworks in Ann Arbor⁶.

This drink can fool some people. The elderflower and the lemon in the cocktail can suggest a completely different taste: grapefruit.

Bees and Blossoms

1 ? oz White Blossom Vodka from Valentine Distilling

1 oz blood orange juice

? oz lemon juice

2 dashes Peychaud's bitters

2 oz Standard mead from Bl?m Meadworks

Pour first four ingredients in to a shaking tin. Add ice and shake. Strain into a champagne⁷ flute⁸. Top it off with the mead. Add a lemon twist.

1 influx   

n.流入，注入

参考例句：

• The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.这个国家实在不能接纳这么多涌入的难民。
• Textile workers favoured protection because they feared an influx of cheap cloth.纺织工人拥护贸易保护措施，因为他们担心涌入廉价纺织品。

2 cocktail   

n.鸡尾酒；餐前开胃小吃；混合物

参考例句：

• We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
• At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。

3 complexity   

n.复杂(性)，复杂的事物

参考例句：

• Only now did he understand the full complexity of the problem.直到现在他才明白这一问题的全部复杂性。
• The complexity of the road map puzzled me.错综复杂的公路图把我搞糊涂了。

4 distilling   

n.蒸馏（作用）v.蒸馏( distil的过去式和过去分词 )( distilled的过去分词 )；从…提取精华

参考例句：

• Water can be made pure by distilling it. 水经蒸馏可变得纯净。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• More ammonium sulphate solution is being recovered in the process of distilling oil shale. 在提炼油页岩的过程中回收的硫酸铵液比过去多了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 mead   

n.蜂蜜酒

参考例句：

• He gave me a cup of mead.他给我倒了杯蜂蜜酒。
• He drank some mead at supper.晚饭时他喝了一些蜂蜜酒。

6 arbor   

n.凉亭；树木

参考例句：

• They sat in the arbor and chatted over tea.他们坐在凉亭里，边喝茶边聊天。
• You may have heard of Arbor Day at school.你可能在学校里听过植树节。

7 champagne   

n.香槟酒；微黄色

参考例句：

• There were two glasses of champagne on the tray.托盘里有两杯香槟酒。
• They sat there swilling champagne.他们坐在那里大喝香槟酒。

8 flute   

n.长笛；v.吹笛

参考例句：

• He took out his flute, and blew at it.他拿出笛子吹了起来。
• There is an extensive repertoire of music written for the flute.有很多供长笛演奏的曲目。