Cocktail: Gin and Serendipity

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In my house, my father’s version of the Easter Bunny brings me ten bottles of hand sanitizing products. My mother’s version of the Easter Bunny brings me two bottles of gin and a bottle of Ramazzotti.

So, anyway, this is not about any of those bottles. My mom and I tried Comb 9 a few weeks ago because it’s a gin distilled with honey, and I made something with Mathilde Peche, dry vermouth and honey from our bees, and it was pretty good. So when I got in the house and asked her what she wanted, she said Comb 9.

The problem is, my mom and I haven’t been in the house in like three weeks, so there wasn’t anything in the way of fresh fruit or anything. I kind of wanted to make a pear drink, but that’s hard without, you know, pears. We only had some blood oranges and those would totally overwhelm this stuff.

So I went outside to pick some fresh herbs, and this is what I found:

Hundreds of white violets, blanketing the lawn like snow.

We’ve never gotten violets like this before, not in such abundance!

So:

Baudelaire
2.5 oz Comb 9 gin
3/4 oz Domaine de Canton
1 1/2 tsp Evaporated Cane Juice
13 fresh white violets
1 1/2 tsp fresh thyme

1) Reserve three violets
2) Add all other ingredients to a shake
3) Muddle well– you need to crush the violets until they start to become a pulp, not just bruise them
4) Strain through a fine wire mesh into a cocktail glass
5) Garnish with remaining violets

I wasn’t sure if it would work, but it did! The drink got a lovely pale green color and you can actually taste the violets in it! It is flowery and slightly sweet. So if anybody else has a yard full of violets, you should try this!

Mirrored from Antagonia.net.

Comments

[gairid.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the information...we do indeed have a Trader Joe's (it's a drive, but we love to go there).

We can't get Steens here--we just buy a few every visit to New Orleans--I knew it wasn't what you meant, though. Too thick and OMG sweet.

Hey, I love your new icon--having now seen photos of you, I think this looks more like the you-now.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I used to draw a lot of those vector cartoons, and so I did my icon to match. But I've moved a lot more toward analog materials, and the icon was starting to feel out of place!