We're gonna do a scofflaw. That's a funny name, where does it come from?
So the story behind the Scofflaw is one of my favorites in terms of how a cocktail
gets named. Basically in the middle of prohibition in the United States, so in
1924, the Boston Herald ran a competition amongst its readers to see if they could
come up with a word that meant "somebody who didn't pay attention to Prohibition"
who continued to drink alcohol even though it was illegal, and the winning
entry of 25,000 different entries into that competition was the word Scofflaw.
So to celebrate the creation of this new word that meant somebody who drank
during Prohibition regardless of the law, Harry's American Bar in Paris came up
with the Scofflaw Cocktails, so that's what we're gonna make.
I'd like to know what some of the other entries were as well.
Yeah absolutely, probably be a pretty funny list.
Yeah.
I like it because it sounds so 1920s it's like, 'yeah, scoff law'.
This is another great example of where whiskey cocktails and American whiskey cocktails
in particular, can actually be really bright and fresh and summery and fruity.
I think that it's important to remember that people tend to think of whiskey
cocktails as being quite dark and rich and wintry, but in the United States
where so many classic cocktails were invented whiskey was the base for all of them
no matter what the season was or what your flavor was so there's actually
some really really great bright fresh American whiskey cocktails out there and
this is definitely one of my favorites. So because we are going for that sort of
brighter drier feeling with this cocktail we're gonna start with rye whiskey.
We're just gonna use wild turkey rye. Nice and easy going,
pretty approachable, easy to come by a good price point, so a good thing to use
for cocktails. We're gonna do 50 mils of this so not quite two shots
and next we're going to use some Noilly Prat dry vermouth do you have any opinions
about this particular vermouth as opposed to the Dolan that we use for the last one?
So I reckoned the Dolan's a little bit more citrusy. This one I
find a little bit more herbaceous so kind of goes, works nicely with the
pomegranate in the Grenadine, but yet basically just kind of giving you a couple of
options this is they are both pretty approachable
price-wise fairly widely available. Obviously your martini and things would
work as well Cinzano's fine too.
So whatever dry vermouth you've got
around just going to work well for this drink.
Yeah.
And we're gonna do 25 mils of that,
so two-to-one whiskey to vermouth.
You can tell he's not been behind the bar for a while.
Now I'm behind the bar with Cara Devine!
Then for the sweet element of this drink which is
also going to give it a beautiful pink color when we shake it up we're gonna
use some grenadine. I feel like grenadine is really one of those things that's
worth investing in yeah?
Yes. So grenadine is a pomegranate syrup, basically.
You can buy it, you can make it, but if you are buying it
then get some good quality stuff that actually has pomegranate in it,
you can get some pretty kind of nasty florescent just really sugary sweet ones which are
gonna completely, you know, mask all of the nice things that you're putting in here.
Yeah red cordial is definitely not a good replacement for real grenadine.
But also it's really easy to make you basically just want to do like one part
or pomegranate juice with one part sugar and boil it, well, not boil it, but
simmer it on the stove for a while until it kind of reduces to a syrupy
consistency. It's also nice, I quite often add a little bit of orange blossom
and a little bit of pomegranate molasses in there as well and it just kind of
rounds it out and gives you a few different nuances going on.
Definitely, so just a little bit of that syrup because it's made with all of those other things
is gonna give some really nice sort of fruit and floral characteristics to this
drink as well. So we've got about 10 mils of that to go in there.
Next thing that's gonna go into this drink again to give a little bit more
complexity and a little bit of bitterness as well is some orange bitters,
so we're just gonna do a couple of dashes of that and that's gonna give
you a really nice kind of aromatic note to this drink as well, sort of hitting
all the points of the palate. And then of course we need some citrus, 'cause this is a really
bright fresh style of cocktails I'm just going to squeeze some fresh lemon juice.
All right, so we're gonna do about 15 mils of lemon juice in this one you
don't need heaps, because most of those other ingredients and already quite dry.
Get our lemon twist ready for the garnish. Gonna give this guy shake.
Grab a chilled glass out.
Should probably give it a taste, hey?
I reckon.
It's good. So zingy.
So zingy.
Lovely bright fresh color.
I mean it is a true fact that all of the best drinks are pink.
That's true. And then squeeze our lemon twist over
the top, get those oils out.
And there we go, there is a scofflaw cocktail.
Thank you.
Hmmm, makes me want the sun to some out.
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