welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark and today we're going to do a
cocktail out of this 1931
book called the old waldorf bar days
and so this is during american
prohibition and the first
probably half of the book is just
stories of things that happened
at the bar at the waldorf astoria in new
york city
and then they get into recipes and i
think the recipes are very interesting
because
they're not close to what other recipes
from this time period are
some of them are way off base and we'll
get to those in future episodes
today we're going to do something called
the creole and it is
very simple now this cocktail is equal
amounts
absinthe
and italian vermouth or sweet vermouth
and i'm making two cocktails here
and you can see it's a very small amount
even for two cocktails so
two dashes or maybe three of orange
bears
ice and we shake
okay a couple of nickinora glasses
already iced down
and i'll try to divide this between the
two but like i said
these are really small pores
oh my
there you have the creole cocktail hey
glenn hey friends
the creole cocktail i'm in very tiny
cocktail
it is a tiny cocktail it is a tiny
cocktail and so that could be a good
thing
well it probably is a good thing and
here's why so early on cocktails were
very tiny
two maybe three ounces total um
this is half and half absinthe and
vermouth and
absinthe is anywhere between 67 and like
75 percent alcohol might be white it's a
tiny that's why it's a tiny cocktail
it's
wise that it's a tiny cocktail it's just
meant to have a taste
you get a kick in the head oh
there's a lot of smell to that yeah
the absence definitely dominates that
flavor it does it does and so
um a really heavy strong licorice flavor
yeah
which if you love licorice is great it's
fantastic but i don't know that a whole
drink of licorice is
that's all that's all i would be able to
drink of this
and it's interesting yeah it's the
vermouth kind of
dulls it a little bit i don't know where
the orange
bitters fit in it it's not really adding
to it no
the orange bitters are not adding
anything to that you're going to add an
extra orange just to see if it changes
no i don't well maybe yeah let's in the
eyes of science
the eyes of science i don't know
very scientifically swirl oh i swirled
red little glass
okay
no still dominated it it changes the
flavor a bit but it's still dominated by
that licorice flavor
like you've got to like licorice to
enjoy this drink that's a that's
that's a an after supper
after supper after dessert retire to the
drawing room
and have a have a little bit of of that
so our lack of a drawing room means we
may never have women
again i mean it's worth exploring it's
worth trying i was drawn to it because
it was so simple
and so tiny and it might be for you
right i mean just because it's not for
us
there you go or what's the other one a
conservatory maybe you have a
conservatory
a music room thanks for stopping by see
you again soon
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