Cooking Lesson #739: Bend Over Shirley Cocktail

…from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

How you doin’? I can’t remember a time when I went out to eat with my parents to a “fancy” restaurant where I didn’t order a Shirley Temple when my folks ordered their martinis. So, just who was Shirley Temple?
 
Shirley Jane Temple was born on April 23, 1928, at Santa Monica Hospital, the third child of homemaker Gertrude Temple and bank employee George Temple. Temple's mother encouraged her to develop her singing, dancing, and acting talents. At about this time, her mother began styling Temple's hair in ringlets.[15]
 
While at the dance school, Temple was spotted by Charles Lamont, who was a casting director for a movie company. Little 3-year old Shirley hid behind a piano while he was in the studio. Lamont liked Temple and invited her to audition. He signed her to a contract in 1932. Educational Pictures launched its Baby Burlesques, 10-minute comedy shorts satirizing recent films and events, using preschool children in every role. In 1933, Temple appeared in Glad Rags to Riches, a parody of the Mae West feature She Done Him Wrong, with Temple as a saloon singer. That same year, she appeared in Kid 'in' Africa as a child imperiled in the jungle and in Runt Page, a pastiche of the previous year's The Front Page. The younger players in the cast recited their lines phonetically.
 
Shirley Temple became one of the most popular actresses in the world (child or adult) at that time and even won an Academy Award—a miniature of the adult sized one. While all this was going on children all over the world were ordering a drink—Shirley Temple—made with 7/Up and grenadine topped with a Marsicano cherry.
 
All these years later you can still find a grown-up version of a favorite mocktail, the Shirley Temple. A Bend Over Shirley cocktail is the made with the same grenadine and lemon-lime soda, it has the same fruity taste you loved as a kid along with a kick-ass adaptation from the 2-ounces of vodka.
 
Prep time:  3 minutes
Yield:  1 cocktail
 
Ingredients
 
2 ounces vodka
1 ounce grenadine
4 ounces lemon-lime soda
3 Maraschino cherries for garnish
 
Directions

1. Fill a glass with ice cubes, then add the vodka and grenadine.
2. Top with lemon-lime soda.
3. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

ChefSecret:  You can use a plain vodka or substitute a cherry-flavored brand such as Smirnoff, or Skyy. Grenadine is not made from cherries but a deep red, pomegranate-flavored syrup. You can use Sprite or 7/Up for the lemon-lime flavor. For a more traditional approach, substitute ginger ale and an added splash of orange juice.

Quip of the Day:  A vampire walks into a bar and tells the bartender he wants a Shirley Temple. The bartender heads to the backroom and a few moments later, he comes out with his drink. The vampire sips his drink and quickly spits it out. "This isn't a Shirley Temple," he tells the bartender. "I can't help it, buddy," the bartender says. "She's been dead for eight years."
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