Cocktails
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue Cocktail Recipe
Camry Cowan, who owns Miss Boston’s Cocktail Lounge along with his wife, Mesha, shares how to make a Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue cocktail.

Recipe courtesy Camry Cowan, written by Tessa Cooper
“Everyone knows you are supposed to give your Valentine flowers, and this cocktail is the perfect companion for the bouquet you give this year,” says Cowan.
Ingredients
• 0.75 oz Roku gin
• 0.75 oz Creme de Violette
• 0.5 oz Cointreau
• 0.75 oz citric acid solution
• 0.25 tsp Fee Brothers Rose water
• 1 dash Peychaud's aromatic bitters
Instructions
1. To make the citric acid solution, combine 5 grams of citric acid with 95 grams of water, and stir until the acid is fully dissolved.
2. Combine all the cocktail’s ingredients in a mixing glass. Fill the glass 2/3 full of ice, and stir 30 to 50 times until chilled. Strain the mixture into a chilled coupe or martini glass. Garnish with rose and violet petals.