Bourbon and Apple Cider. Vermontucky lemonade. This is how I’ve decided to prepare for summer this year: 1. Buy tiny madras shorts and aviator sunglasses for the toddler. Like I could resist. 2. Let fear of bathing suit season convince me to let a friend drag me to my first Pilates class, ever, and not even a beginner class. Ow. I’m pretty sure I should have resisted. 3. Allow myself the purchase of a single purpose, space-hogging (well, not for a normal sized kitchen but definitely for mine) appliance I have coveted for more than a decade, just because it will take us from lemons to lemonade in under 5 minutes. Logically, to celebrate the fact that I finally accepted that the joy an electric citrus juicer would bring me* would outmatch the inconvenience of storing it, the recipe that I’d share today would be for lemonade.
Amusingly enough, our current favorite cocktail sprang out of our quest to find a perfect version our previous favorite cocktail, the Manhattan. Vermontucky Lemonades Fill a glass with ice. Cider-Bourbon Cocktail. Bourbon Cocktail Recipe. The Sazerac-The Original Cocktail. In honor of July 4, a celebration of patriotism, freedom and a general sense of looking back and seeing “where it all began,” it seemed appropriate to write about something that is a true representation of seeing where it all began in the world of the cocktail. The Sazerac is what is known as the first “original” cocktail, and rightfully so. As the story goes, in 1838 an apothecary owner in New Orleans by the name of Antoine Amedie Peychaud had a habit of making brandy toddies for his friends using his homemade “Peychaud’s Bitters,” made from a secret recipe. The toddies were made using a coquetier, which is a double-ended egg cup being used as a jigger. Coincidentally, this is where the word “cocktail” was derived from!
By 1850, the Sazerac Cocktail was being made with Sazerac Brandy and Peychaud’s Bitters and was incredibly popular. Below you’ll find the recipe for the official Sazerac cocktail, as provided by The Sazerac Company. Cheers and Happy Fourth of July! Ingredients: Bourbon Bramble Recipe.