Whiskey Sour
The venerable Whiskey Sour is the newest “Drink of the Week!”
A simple entry in a family of classics, sours are basically some form of alcohol, with some sort of sour (lemon or lime) and a sweetener sugar, simple syrup, fruit juice, etc. Wikipedia’s article on the Sour can be found here.
Here’s the recipe I used:
Whiskey Sour
2 oz blended Canadian whiskey
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 oz simple syrup (or to taste)
2 oz cold water
Shake with ice, strain into a sour glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with lemon and cherry.
I typically go with a double, because you have to fill that glass, you know? The drink can also be acceptably prepared with sour mix, if you’re out of lemons (but why would you let that happen?)
Other resources:
Whiskey Sour Recipe – Drinksmixer.com
Whiskey Sour - Emeril Legasse
Whiskey Sour – Epicurious
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Heh…it’s as if you’ve been raiding my family’s liquor cabinet for the past couple of entries. Whiskey sours are my paternal grandparents’ preferred drink and my brother likes G&T’s. All you need now is martinis for my late grandfather and an old fashioned for my grandmother, and you’ll have my entire immediate family going back three generations on here! (My folks and I are straight-up whiskey drinkers.)
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