Saturday, May 19, 2012

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Still on a Mid-Century cocktail kick here at the Fogged In Lounge. Judging by the recipe booklets, liquor advertising and printed placemats of the time, they certainly liked dessert cocktails. (And I’ve known more than one older lady who ordered an Alexander or Grasshopper at any hour she perched at the bar.) I like a bit of cacao myself now and then though I don’t really want all the unbalanced sugar in most of those things. So I invented a dry after dinner cocktail—an after dinner cocktail for people who like liquor. As you’ll see, it’s got liquor in it. Enjoy.



Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
  • 1 oz aquavit (Aalborg)
  • 1 oz kirsch
  • 1/4 oz white crème de cacao
Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Lemon twist.
SOURCE: ROWEN, FOGGED IN LOUNGE

Aquavit, dry cherry brandy, hint of chocolate. Looks like a Martini, tastes like Scandinavian furniture looks.

2 comments:

  1. 1)Best. Flavour description. Ever.
    2)If we add an absinthe rinse and top it with champagne is it a Rosencrantz & Guilenstern Are Dead?

    Cheers!

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    1. Very glad you like. Dead indeed. (And possibly tasting of having been slaughtered under the sun. Eesh.)

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