Tippling Tuesday, Round 7
It’s Tuesday, a day that is underappreciated everywhere except at EV. We love Tuesdays here so much that we’ve given them their own name: Tippling Tuesday!
With Thanksgiving over and Christmas just around the corner, I’ve had traditions on my mind quite a bit of late. For instance, the wishbone from our turkey is hanging by a string in the kitchen window. Why there? I have no idea, but it’s a tradition around here for VH and I to break the wishbone together on December 1.
Curiously enough, it’s also a tradition for me to announce after Thanksgiving dinner “Wait, don’t throw the carcass away. I’ll make stock out of it!” Then, as tradition dictates, I forget about the thing for several days until it starts reeking… at which point I traditionally throw it away.
So what better way to mark this particular Tippling Tuesday than with a traditional drink.
Hot Buttered Rum
1 oz. good quality light rum
1 tsp. sugar (or more to taste)
1/2 tsp. butter
4 cloves
Hot water
Put the sugar, butter, cloves and rum into a coffee mug and stir together. Top with hot water and stir again until the butter melts.
So, what’s your favorite traditional drink this time of year?
UPDATE: For those of you who prefer your drinks chilled, my mouth’s been watering over my pal VodkaPundit’s Bloody Mary recipe, but I recommend going with less than 4 ounces if you don’t happen to have an attorney on retainer. Also, make your own V-8, and if you don’t have a good homemade V-8 recipe, beg for it and I might just post mine in the comment section.
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Any time of year, the only thing to drink is neat Scotch. My palate is not distinguished enough to differentiate blended from single malt scotches (well, I do like Laphroaig, but on a day to day basis, I don’t much care.)
I admit that when Castro dies, if he hasn’t already, I will toast the event with a Cuba Libre.
I remember having years and years ago an anthology of articles from Punch, the British humour magazine. I don’t remember the author, but the article was titled ”
The Perfect Drink.” The author considers many possible drinks, and concludes that scotch with iced tea must be the perfect drink; and then decides that neat scotch really cannot be beaten.
Clearly that author had never had one of my martinis.
I can’t drink brown liquor. Not at all. It makes me… how do I put this… loopy. Yeah, we’ll go with that. Just in case my probation officer finds my blog.
Um, I should point out: That was a joke, folks!
Sheesh.
Years and years ago, when the Boeing 747 was relatively new, I flew on TWA (which no longer exists) from Chicago to San Francisco. The new plane was so big, that they had a coach lounge.
After the seat-belt sign went off, I migrated up to the lounge and ordered a martini. The stewardess poured some gin over ice and handed me (to my surprise) a spray bottle of vermouth. One short squirt made a fine dry martini.
Those vermouth misters are awesome and, as you pointed out, make a very fine dry martini!
Sigh. Another 5 months before alcohol.
hln
Fine holiday drink, the Fahg cuttah (Fog Cutter), which is simply vodka (don’t waste the boutique vodka on this, get some Potter’s) and cranberry juice.
Highball glass
Few rocks
Shot of vodka
3 oz of GOOD cranberry juice (not juice drink).
Stir, sip, ahhhhhh, fagh cuttah! (Hey, I lived in Taxachusetts once, can do that talk).
Some recipes may call for spices. Forget them. You want the zing of the vodka and the tart of the cranberry, and that’s all.
Health bennie: cranberry juice is good for the kidneys, so in case you’re imbibing too much hooch and not enough water, if you drink Fog Cutters you’ll be less likely to get a kidney infection.
I love Fog Cutters! I’ve never tried them with a good cranberry juice before, though. Any brand recommendations?