Yes! We Have No Cedillas

Looking for ways to use up lime juice and found a cachaca-based cocktail in the PDT Cocktail Book that has eight parts cachaca, three parts lime juice, and two parts almond syrup muddled with fresh ginger. We always have ginger but are very much lacking in cedillas, so we substituted rum for it. This was good, and is mostly a daiquiri, right?

Where Have You Gone, Audrey Fanning?

I don’t think “Audrey Fanning” actually refers to anyone in particular but it is a cocktail in Mr. Boston: five parts gin, two parts sweet vermouth, one part Cherry Heering and two dashes Peychaud’s bitters. It’s a good cocktail: someone online (just saw it on the Google result, and didn’t actually read the post itself — which happens like all the time, when you think about it) mentioned it’s like a modified Negroni, which is perceptive, in retrospect. It’s good; tastes like a cocktail. A few days later, I think it could even use a lemon twist.

Tonight, I substituted Dubonnet for the sweet vermouth; this tasted even better. Still think it could maybe use a lemon twist. Or an orange twist maybe.

On a somewhat related note, a drop of Peychaud’s landed on the counter and I thought to taste it on its own: it’s like an elderly man’s cheap cologne.

When Almond Syrup Ruled The World

The Little Bit Country in the PDT book — the one with the bourbon, lemon juice, maraschino and jalapeno that helped us figure out what to do with all these jalapenos we have — is even better when you replace the maple syrup with almond syrup (orgeat). Well, maybe not necessarily better, but different and worth experimenting with.

Almond Syrup, Plus, Also, Too

I don’t want to repeat the name of the cocktail sharing the name of the post title here, mostly because I think it’s mostly offensive, even if the author seemingly innocently used it. The provenance is I’m assuming that ’80s song. I always thought the lyrics were talking about, er, onanism and, uh, what one’s eyes, uh, look like during which. The band claims otherwise but their claims are totally unbelievable [edit: went back and read the lyrics and am now doubly incredulous]. So anyway, that happened.

It’s three parts rye (or bourbon), one part orgeat, one part triple sec, one part lemon juice and several dashes of bitters. Pretty good and not medicinal tasting like the other variation on this.

Almond Syrup, Too

When we last left it, I said I wanted to try the Trinidad Sour, which is three parts rye, one part Fernet Branca, one part lemon juice and one part orgeat (or whatever you’re using). This is good — the Fernet Branca is medicinal but you get used to it, which I know doesn’t sound appetizing, but in the end/by the end, it’s a nice cocktail.