Hello, fellow cocktail drinkers. Here we are at the penultimate cocktail in our Twelve Days of Christmas cocktail calendar. For the cocktails thus far, we've made some connection to the given verse of the carol, whether it was a literal ingredient or inspired by the words or tone of the verse. With this cocktail, we fully admit that the cocktail we made has nothing to do with the number 11, pipers or piping. We found a recipe that adds olive oil to a brandy sour to make the cocktail a little deeper and richer in flavour. We took that idea and riffed on it, making the sour out of a cherry and fig infused brandy.
Eleven Pipers Piping Cocktail
- 2 parts cherry and fig infused brandy (see cocktail notes below)
- 1/2 part lemon juice
- 3/4 part simple syrup
- 1 tsp good quality olive oil
- 1 tsp egg white
- spritz of Pernod
Combine the brandy, lemon juice, simple syrup, olive oil and egg white in a cocktail shaker. Dry shake for at least 20 seconds. Add ice and shake until the cocktail is chilled. Pour into a coupe glass and mist with Pernod.
Cocktail Notes
- For the brandy infusion, we used 1 cup of brandy, 1/4 a cup of dried cherries and 2 dried figs (roughly cut up). Let that mixture set for at least 2 days to get the full flavour of the fruit in the brandy.
- The original recipe called for a mist of Herbsaint which we didn't have but found that Pernod married nicely with infused brandy.
- Make sure your olive oil is fresh! We found out the hard way that some of the olive oil in the kitchen had turned.
- The dry shake is extremely important to help emulsify the ingredients together. Without that, the cocktail won't taste like an integrated drink.
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