Devil's Sweat Cocktail

Most recipes call for 2 ounces of grenadine, but to me, this makes the drink a bit too sweet for my tastes; so, I use less grenadine, but more fresh lime juice. 

 

 

Ingredients (per cocktail): 

 

3 ounces triple sec

1 1/2 ounces grenadine 

1 1/2 ounces fresh lime juice

ice

 

 In a rocks glass (also known as an "old fashioned glass"), add a small amount of ice, then add the other  ingredients and stir to mix. Add a little more ice.

 

WORD HISTORY:

Sweat-This word, used both as a verb and as a noun, goes back to Indo European "swe-id/swyed," meaning "to sweat." This gave Old Germanic "swaitjanan," meaning "to sweat," which gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "swætan," with the same meaning, but with a figurative usage meaning "to work hard." The verb then became "sweten" before the modern form. Along the verb's way to modern times, it also developed the meaning "to worry greatly" (circa 1400). The noun goes back to the same Indo European base which gave Old Germanic "swaitaz," which gave Old English "swat," which then became "swate," then "swote," before the verb form nudged the noun back toward the verb's spelling and pronunciation as "swet," before the modern form. Throughout much of its history, "sweat" has been used to symbolize "hard work," but also "intense worry." The early part of the 1500s saw the development of the noun "sweater," which originally meant; "one who works hard," and then later, "clothing that makes one sweat (regarding weight loss)," but then "a classification of a type of vest or heavy shirt worn to keep warm in damp, chilly weather (but without the cumbersomeness of a heavy coat)," but gradually with an upgrading of some such garments to be stylish apparel. Relatives in the other Germanic languages (noun/verb): German has "Schweiß/schwitzen," Low German "Sweet/sweten," West Frisan "swit/switte," Dutch "zweet/zweten," Danish "sved/svede," Icelandic "sviti/svitna," Norwegian "svette/svette," Swedish "svett/svettas."