Hey! Welcome to Hilah Cooking. Today I am going to make some mint juleps which are a

favorite summertime drink in my house. Mint julep was invented to be enjoyed on a balmy

summer evening, sitting on a whitewashed porch in a rocking chair with little children frolicking

in the yard and catching fireflies in wide mouth Mason jars and Chevy Chase singing zippedy

doo dah, but it's January, and it's about 1:00 in the afternoon, Chevy Chase is still

asleep. [MUSIC]

All right, here's what you need, whiskey, delicious, fresh mint, beautiful, sugar cubes,

adorable, ice, crushed, spoon, shiny, something to muddle with, wood, and a glass, high ball.

All right, step one, sugar cube in the glass, it's so adorable, get a sprig of mint, tear

off maybe 12 leaves, throw it in yo' cup, 8, 12, 13, what the hell. All right, put in

just a teeny, little bit of booze to sort of moisten the sugar cube, wooo, and then

get your muddling utensil, and break up that sugar cube with the mint, the abrasiveness

of the sugar is going to help break up the mint a little bit, and it will help release

its oils which is what you want and just keep mixing that around until the sugar is dissolved

and your mint will start to look kind of brown and stuff, but it's delicious, so just trust

me, okay? All right, looking good, put in ice to the

top of your glass, crushed, and then pour in some booze. A little stir, get it chilled,

it's very important, get that ice working, it's ice magic and making things cold. Delicious.

Mmmmm. It's really good. It's potent. It's pretty much straight booze, and it goes down

a lot smoother than you probably wish it will. So try it out. After you have had like three

or four and you start messing around on the computer when you're home alone drinking by

yourself, look on Facebook, look up Hilah Cooking, be my fan. We could chat because

I am probably on there too, getting drunk and chatting with people and making comments

I shouldn't.