Vodka shaken vs. a Vodka Martini

[Shalmanese]

If you're just muddling them and fine straining anyway, couldn't you use frozen blueberries?

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I would, but don't those invariably have sugar added?? It always seems like the blueberry "juice" is more like blueberry "syrup", which would undoubtedly throw off the balance of the recipe.

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I don't think I've ever seen frozen blueberries with sugar added. Maybe a little citric acid but that's it. Frozen and then thawed juice will be thicker because it contains a higher proportion of dissolved fruit solids as freezing breaks down the cell walls.

[KatieLoeb]

Ok - that makes more sense. Next time I see frozen blueberries when I'm shopping at Trader Joe's or BJ's, I'll nab some and play with some new drink recipe ideas. Last summer we were making blueberry simple syrup for lemonades (either with or without the extra kick of some booze) by buzzing fresh blueberries through the blending in the still hot simple syrup and then straining it. This shouldn't be any more difficult to accomplish and I don't even need to cook up a batch of simple.