Feel free to share some great cocktail recipes with me. I’ve just recently bought several “Bibles” of mixology, some from pre-Prohibition, post-Prohibition, Tiki and the current Craft eras.
I’ll start with one I made tonight. From “In the Land of Cocktails” by Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally Brennan who were influential mixologists and restaurant runners at Commander’s Palace, Brennan’s and Cafe Adelaide and Swizzle Stick Bar, this is the Widow’s Kiss.
From the ingredient list, you’d expect it to be overly bitter. But this is a surprisingly well-balanced cocktail, neither too bitter nor too sweet and very well balanced despite the depths of the herbs.
it is:
2 parts Calvados or Laird’s Apple Brandy
1 part Green Chartreuse
1 part Benedictine
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
I’ll start with one I made tonight. From “In the Land of Cocktails” by Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally Brennan who were influential mixologists and restaurant runners at Commander’s Palace, Brennan’s and Cafe Adelaide and Swizzle Stick Bar, this is the Widow’s Kiss.
From the ingredient list, you’d expect it to be overly bitter. But this is a surprisingly well-balanced cocktail, neither too bitter nor too sweet and very well balanced despite the depths of the herbs.
it is:
2 parts Calvados or Laird’s Apple Brandy
1 part Green Chartreuse
1 part Benedictine
2 dashes of Angostura bitters