Hibiscus Sazerac Food

THE ORIGINAL SAZERAC

Steps:

• Pour a little herbsaint into a frozen rocks glass. Swirl around the inside of the glass and then pour out. In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine the remaining ingredients and shake well. Strain into the herbsaint lined glass.

HIBISCUS SAZERAC

Steps:

• Combine 2 ounces rye whiskey and a dash each of hibiscus syrup and hibiscus bitters in a cocktail shaker with ice; stir well. Add a dash of absinthe to a chilled rocks glass and swirl to coat. Strain the drink into the glass (add fresh ice, if desired). Garnish with a lemon twist.

HIBISCUS SOUTHSIDER

Steps:

• Put the gin, tea, Simple Syrup and lemon juice in a mixing glass, add large ice and shake vigorously with a cocktail shaker. Taste for balance, strain into a martini or Nick and Nora glass with ice and garnish with a lime wedge.
• Combine the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. Keep covered in the refrigerator up to 1 month.

SAZERAC

Steps:

• In an ice-filled mixing glass, stir together 3 dashes Peychaud bitters, 3 dashes Angostura bitters, 2 ounces bourbon, and simple syrup or sugar. Into chilled rocks glasses, add a splash of Ricard, swirl, and pour out. Strain the Sazerac into the chilled rocks glasses. Garnish with lemon peels.

CLASSIC SAZERAC

Steps:

• Muddle the sugar and bitters to a paste in an old-fashioned glass. Fill the glass with ice, add the bourbon and stir for 12 to 15 seconds with a bar spoon or long-handled spoon.
• In a second old-fashioned glass, add the absinthe, swirl to coat the inside of the glass, then discard the excess absinthe. Strain the bourbon mixture into the absinthe-rinsed glass.
• Serve without ice, neat. Garnish with a lemon peel.

SAZERAC

Steps:

• Coat chilled rocks glass with absinthe. Muddle sugar cube with bitters in a mixing glass; add rye and ice. Stir. Strain into chilled rocks glass. Twist lemon peel over the drink to release oils, then discard twist.