Shake ‘N Bake Cocktails

The thing I learned, belatedly, after buying a fucking thing of it, is that the only thing Drambuie is good for is a Rusty Nail, which I still haven’t bothered making not least of which because Drambuie, as a scotch-based herbal whatever the fuck ever, is mixed with straight scotch. Basically, what the fuck? Scotch mixed with scotch? You’re kidding, right? So I never use it.

I suppose I should try a Rusty Nail. Maybe not now but some other time. Maybe tomorrow, just to get it out of the way. But I can’t believe it’s awesome. It’s just two ingredients, right?

All of which is to say, this colored my idea about a Dubonnet Cocktail, which at two ingredients (gin and Dubonnet Rouge), equally measured, seems too simple to be good. That’s a bad assumption. It’s a good cocktail. It feels like making a pork chop with Shake ‘n Bake, but it’s good. It has orange bitters, too. But still.