"Canadian Lyric" cocktail?
On 2008-05-28, Adam Funk wrote:
>> "A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following >> cocktail: >> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion >> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and >> shaken up with cracked ice. .... > The text doesn't fully specify the ratios (just x:x:2y), so my initial > experiment was with x=y: one jigger of lemon juice, one of maple > syrup, and two of Canadian Club, shaken vigorously with non-cracked > ice (because I don't have a fancy ice crusher and didn't feel like > hammering it). > > Not bad, but probably not to everyone's taste. I still can't decide > whether Davies was winding his readers up. I'll try a ratio of 1:1:4 > later this week and report back. The 1:1:4 was still so-so. I think RD was trolling. But I'm working on an interesting variation of Amis's Old-Fashioned recipe (for which he says "You really have to use bourbon. The Rye Old-Fashioned is not too bad; the Irish version just tolerable; the Scotch one not worth while."). (Elsewhere in _On drink_ he recommends preparing sugar syrup in advance for this and other cocktails, so I think maple syrup is in order here.) dashes of Angostura squeezins of half a clementine/satsuma maraschino/glacé cherry 2 or 3 tsp maple syrup "big slug" of Canadian Club "stir furiously" 3 ice cubes I've been recently advised that Amis wrote two further books on the subject, which are now back in print as a compendium! -- I spend almost as time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it. Networked software, especially, requires frequent updates and maintenance, all of which gets in the way of doing routine work. (Stoll 1995) |
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