Winter Spirits to Warm Your Soul
Once January hits (and we have finally stopped bragging to our friends in cold places about our long summer) we will get a tiny dose of winter here in the Bay Area. It’s nothing like the winters I rem...
Flips are another antique cocktail from the age of sail. Most consisted of rum, sugar, ale and egg. Flips can also be served hot or cold. It’s a decadent beverage appropriate for winter imbibing. Flips typically call for an entire egg; if that’s not your thing I have a backup plan.
Ingredients
- 1 ounce 100-proof rye whiskey
- 1 ounce porter
- ½ ounce rich simple syrup
- 1 whole egg (cracked into shaker). Or, alternately, ½ ounce olive oil and ¾ ounces pasteurized egg whites
- Pinch of salt
Preparation
Combine ingredients into large part of shaker. Seal shaker without ice and shake hard for 10 seconds. This is emulsifying the egg whites and yolk together (or the egg whites and olive oil). Be careful not to let the tin pop on you, as pressure will build. Open shaker and add ice and shake again as hard as possible for 15 to 20 seconds.
Fine-strain into glass and enjoy.
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