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Compliment Cocktail

I have found my happy place with this cocktail for 2 nights in a row now. It’s just that simple and that good! Do you ever wonder how someone starts an idea for a cocktail? Or decides which one to make on a particular night? For us, there are all kinds of reasons- cravings, what we have on hand, what we just bought or a recipe we just saw that go into it. But for this cocktail, it was the dehydrated lemons. Bryan had dehydrated a whole crop of them to use with cocktails and we wanted to mix up a drink to use them with. The Bourbon and Amari combination is a go-to for us for a lot of cocktails (no secret there) and this has a similar structure and bitter undertone that I adore. Perfect for a Monday night..or a Tuesday night..or Wednesday night..you get the picture! And perfectly complimented by dehydrated lemons.

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Hawthorne Strainer

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Ingredients

1 oz Bourbon

1 oz Cappelletti

.5 oz fresh lemon juice

.5 oz honey syrup

Directions

Cut and juice .5 oz of lemon juice

Shake all ingredients with a cup and half of ice

Pour into a coupe glass over a clear ice cube.

Garnish with dehydrated lemons.

Cheers!

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Home Warming Cocktail

I love a good scotch and this Laphroaig is so perfectly layered with flavors of smoke and earth. I’ve read other reviews that talk about a seaweed flavor on the front of the sip; however, I’ve always likened it more to a mossy hillside. In this cocktail, it brings a powerful base and notes of vanilla and peat. Amaro Nonino adds a balance to the Laphroaig, giving it a slight sweetness and herbal bitterness. If you haven’t tried this Amaro before, I highly recommend it; there’s really nothing else quite like it.

The honey syrup offsets some of the bitters and smoke and brings that sweetness out just a bit more while giving it a smooth feel. There’s a slight lingering honey flavor long after the sip is finished. The cocktail is finished off with some freshly squeezed lemon juice to bring the sour and create unity and balance in the drink. This is the kind of cocktail shared amongst good friends before an intimate dinner or over late night confessions. It’s sipped and enjoyed slowly and creates a warm glow. I’m sharing it from my home to yours…and naming it the Home Warming. Enjoy, friends!

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Hawthorne Strainer

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Ingredients

2 oz Islay Scotch Laphroaig 10

.25 oz Amaro Nonino

.25 oz honey syrup- made from Hoby’s Honey

.25 oz fresh lemon juice

Directions

You probably should shake due to the lemon juice and honey Syrup. I stirred, but for no reason other than I like to stir.

Add all the ingredients to ice and stir. Strain into a glass over a single clear ice cube.

Garnish with half a lemon slice.

Cheers!

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Bitter Cosmo Cocktail

This riff on a Cosmo (The Dale DeGroff Cosmo) balances the sweetness with the Cappelletti’s more herbal, citrusy, bitter notes. 

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Cocktail Shaker

Hawthorne Strainer

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Ingredients

1.5 oz Absolut Citron

1 oz Cappelletti

1 oz cranberry juice cocktail

.5 oz Cointreau

.25 oz lime juice

Directions

Shake all ingredients together with ice and strain into your glass.

I garnished it with a rose from the garden.

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Between the Devil and the Deep Cocktail

Between the Devil and the Deep.   This drink was found from one of my favorite cocktails sites: Kindred Cocktails.  I fully admit that when we first made this cocktail, it was because we loved the name!   I mean with a name like that, how could we not try it?!  Then we also saw the combination of Navy strength gin, Campari and Velvet Flarenum along with bitters and lemon, and knew it would be great!

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Ingredients

1.5 oz of Navy strength gin (Plymouth Gin)

.5 oz Velvet Falernum

.5 oz fresh lemon juice

.5 oz Campari

3 dashes Rhubarb bitters

Directions

Cut and juice a lemon and measure 1 ounce

Add the additional ingredients to your shaker and shake for 10-15 seconds.

Strain into a coupe or Nick and Nora Glass

Garnish with a Lemon Peel  

Cheers!

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The Clover Club cocktail is a classic late 1800s drink that got its start in Philadelphia.   It first started in Bellevue-Stratford Hotel with the local power players that got together and formed a group with the same name; the Clover Club.

There are several variations of this cocktail and I am using a recipe I found in the Death & Co cocktail book.

This recipe does include an egg white.  As long as you use fresh eggs you have nothing to worry about.

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Fancy Toothpick

Ingredients

2 oz Gin (Plymouth Gin)

.75 oz lemon juice

.5 oz simple syrup

1 barspoon raspberry preserves

1 egg white

Directions

Add one egg white to your shaker and give the egg white a dry shake vigorously for 60 seconds until the egg white has started to foam up.

Add the additional ingredients to your shaker and shake for 30-45 seconds.

Pour the cocktail into a coupe glass and garnish with raspberries.

Cheers!

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Corpse Reviver 2 Cocktail

One of my favorite cocktail books has been the Death & Co. Modern Classic Cocktails book and they have a new book out the Cocktail Codex.

The book is extremely detailed and amazing.  Anyone who is into learning about cocktails should definitely pick up this book.  It’s sure to be a classic

When I saw the recipe for the Corpse Reviver 2 in the book, I knew I had to make one since it had been a couple of years since I have had one.

The original recipe was popularized in the Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock.

The Corpse Reviver 2 is an equal parts cocktail plus Absinthe.  This cocktail leans towards citrus with a kick from the Absinthe.    If you haven’t had absinthe before, it’s not something you would expect.  Absinthe has a very strong licorice taste, but for some reason goes well in cocktails.

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Ingredients

.75 oz Gin (Bombay Sapphire)

.75 oz Lillet blanc

.75 oz Cointreau

.75 oz fresh lemon juice

2 dashes absinthe

Directions

Add two drops of absinthe to a couple glass and swirl the glass and coat the glass with the absinthe 1

Shake ingredients with about a cup and half of ice and strain into your coupe glass.

As always, credit for amazing produce goes to our local market Andrews Homestead

Cheers!

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The Bees Knees Cocktail

While shopping at a local produce market today @adamsheritagemarket, I picked up some local honey @hobyshoney. I couldn’t not use this beautiful honey in a cocktail tonight and what better cocktail classic than the Bees Knees.

The Bees Knees is a prohibition- era cocktail that combines gin, lemon juice and honey syrup to create a refreshing and delicious drink. Perfect for cocktail parties or just a chill Sunday night.

I used St George Gin @stgeorgespirits and made the honey syrup with Hoby’s Wildflower Honey. I garnished with a lemon wheel and an extra side of honey.

Barware

Cocktail Shaker

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Ingredients

1.5 oz St. George Gin

.75 oz Lemon Juice

.75 oz Honey Syrup

Directions

Pour all ingredients into your cocktail shaker and add about a cup and half of ice.

Cut the Lemon in half and measure .75 ounces

Shake ingredients together with ice and pour into a coupe style glass.

Cheers!