Egg Based Drinks Make a Comeback
Fill the Holidays with more than just Grandma’s Egg Nog
Once a staple in bars, and not for being pickled, raw eggs are once again frothing up flips and fizzes across the nation.
Renewed uses and current concerns
Raw eggs in alcoholic drinks, during the coming Holiday season, might seem constrained to just the classic nog. However creative bartenders are reviving the use of the egg in new and classic ways. The whites of eggs act as a binding agent and when whipped properly create a distinctive froth.
Have you Salmonella worries? The following recipes can be made with powdered eggs.
So get cracking!
Recipes from Around the Country
Le Grande Flip (brandy) by Jackson Cannon of Eastern Standard in Boston
- 1 oz. apple brandy
- ½ oz. Benedictine
- ½ oz. Orange Juice
- One whole Egg
- bar spoon of sugar
Preparation:
Shake all together over ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a twist of orange.
Sour Cherry Fizz (single malt) – from Julie Riener of The Clover Club in Brooklyn, New York
- 1 ½ oz single malt scotch
- ¾ oz Sour Cherry Puree
- ¾ oz Lemon juice
- 1 egg white
Preparation:
- Shake and strain over fresh ice in a collins glass
- Top with Cherry Soda (clear)
- Garnish with 2 cherries on a pick laying across the top of the glass
Marmalade Sour from Jamie Voudreau at Vessel in Seattle
- 1 ½ oz Cachaca
- ½ oz lemon juice
- Splash of simple syrup
- 2 dashes orange bitters
- ½ egg white
- I tablespoon of orange, citrus, grapefruit, low sugar marmalade
Preparation:
Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Preparation:
- rate 1 egg. Beat the yolk with 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar and 1 teaspoon dark, heavy-bodied rum.
- rately, beat the white until it sustains stiff peaks. Fold the white into the yolk.
- erve, put this batter into a pre-heated mug, add 1 oz cognac and 1/2 oz dark rum (as above), top with hot milk and grate nutmeg over the top.
- rac14; oz Gin
- c12; oz Fresh Lemon Juice
- c12; oz Fresh Lime Juice
- Simple Syrup
- Heavy Cream
- all egg white
- ops of Orange Flower Water
- e all ingredients with ice except the soda and strain into a 12 oz Collins glass that is filled with 2 ice cubes.
- with 1 oz of club soda and dash top of drink w/ 3-4 dashes Cardamom tincture
- ½ oz cracked cardamom to 8 oz vodka. Allow to steep until cardamom flavor develops.
- in off solids, and funnel into a clean dropper bottle.
- 3-4 dashes for the cocktail and store the rest for future use.
- Bourbon
- c12; oz triple sec
- aping tablespoon of fresh made Orange Marmalade (Substitute Store bought for ease)
- of lemon juice
- sh of simple syrup
- shes of Angostura bitters or West Indian Orange Bitters for a milder flavor
- g White
Preparation:
To Prepare Cardamom tincture:
Preparation:
Combine in a shaker and shake extremely well. Serve in an over-sized bowl shaped Riedel Stemless Wine Glass with a bit of ice. Garnish with an orange twist in the glass.
recipes courtesy of www.discus.org
