What is a Martini & how do you make one???

Answer 1

Traditional martini is 5 parts Gin, 1 part dry vermouth shaken over ice. Strained into martini glass and garnished with green olives.

Nowadays, it's anything drinkable served in a martini glass.
Try this one if you don't like gin or straight vodka.
2 oz white creme de cocoa
1/2 oz frangelico hazelnut liquor
1/2 oz Vodka
Shake with ice, strain and serve with chocolate peppermint stick.

Answer 2

A martini is an unsuccessful attempt to make gin palatable by adding vermouth to it. Its name derives from Martini & Rossi, makers of vermouth. drinking it requires a stiff upper lip.

The recipe is simple:
1 part gin
1 part vermouth
Mix with crushed ice in a shaker, and pour into a stemmed glass, straining out the ice. garnish with an olive.

For a cocktail that doesn't waste vermouth, substitute vodka for gin, yielding a vodka martini.

Answer 3

A cocktail. Gin & vermouth is the traditional ingredients. The less vermouth you use, the more "dry" it is. Regardless, you use more gin than vermouth.

They're gross tasting by the way! But some people like them!

Nowadays, people are making all sorts of "designer" martinis with all sorts of different ingredients, but vodka or gin remain the primary ingredient.

Answer 4

key lime martini
4 ounces Charbay Key Lime Vodka
2 ounces Ciroc vodka
2 tablespoons of fresh lime juice
1 tablespoons of cool whip
2 martini glasses rimmed with lime cocktail candy sugar
2 super thin slices of lime
The mix

All of your vodka and 1 tablespoon of cool whip goes into a shaker that is 3/4 full of cracked ice.
Shake for a good minute.
Let your shaker rest for a half minute.
Add 1 tablespoon of the lime juice to the shaker and give another 10 shakes.
Strain into your 2 freezing martini glasses.
Add 1/2 of the remaining lime juice to each glass, and top each with a bit of the remaining cool whip.
Float a lime slice on each glass.

Raspberry d'jin martini
4 ounces of Grey Goose vodka
1 ounce X-rated Fusion liqueur (well chilled)
2 tablespoons raspberry puree (I prefer fresh, but frozen works)
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
2 frozen raspberries
Raspberry flavored cocktail candy rim sugar
The mix

Shake your Grey Goose vodka in a shaker 3/4 full of cracked ice for a full minute--until you simply cant stand the cold!
Let your shaker stand for a moment while you add 1 tablespoon of raspberry puree to the bottom of 2 freezing martini glasses
Rim your freezing martini glasses with raspberry flavored cocktail candy
Each glass gets a tiny bit of lemon juice atop the puree
Strain the vodka into both glasses
Add 1/2 the X-rated Fusion to each glass--drizzling carefully into the center of the each cocktail
Each glass gets a frozen raspberry

Answer 5

Gin and vermouth is the classic
The James Bond one is vodka and vermouth(shaken, not stirred)

Answer 6

Dirty Martini:
Vodka (or Gin) with Vermouth (or olive juice, from a green olive can/container)

Answer 7

Please try a Yahoo Search: recipe martini

for lots of answers.

Why one would want such a recipe escapes me, I think that they taste awful.