Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Peach Pit

Went to the liquor store Sunday to pick up a bottle of Italian white to go with dinner.  Came home sans wine, but with a bottle each of peach and rhubarb bitters.

The bitters brought to mind receipe I saw last year for making amaretto by roasting peach pits and soaking them in cognac.

The Peach Pit
Stir well with ice:
1.5 oz cognac
1.5 oz amaretto
10 dashes peach bitters

Monday, May 23, 2011

When you don't have cloves...

I had some leftover pineapple juice Friday night that I wanted to use up.  I found a recipe for pineapple drink that calls for muddling cloves.  Well, I couldn't find whole cloves, but I did find a bottle of Fee's whiskey barrel bitters, which worked very well with the pineapple.

Shake over ice and strain:
2 oz. pineapple juice
1/2 oz. lemon juice
2 oz. rum (I used Barbancourt 4-star)
1 oz. St-germain
10 dashes whiskey barrel bitters.

Garnish with sage leaf.