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Verjus "Mojito" Highball
Michelle's adaptation of Cuba's famous beverage.

Serves one. Double for two.

Ingredients:
½ tsp sugar
8 mint leaves
thin slice of ginger (about as round as a nickel)

2 oz Venturi-Schulze Verjus
ice
1½ oz rum
ginger ale or ginger beer
5 additional mint leaves

Mix first three ingredients and mash with the back of a spoon. Add the verjus and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Fill a highball glass with ice, strain the mixture into the glass, add the rum and stir. Fill the glass with ginger ale and stir in the 5 whole mint leaves. Delicious!