Photo by Julie Soefer
This bourbon cocktail isn’t technically a Southern classic, but it drinks so much like one. The cocktail was actually created at a modern speakeasy in New York City called Milk & Honey, but every time I serve it at an event in the South, people absolutely love it.
Recipe information
Yield
Makes 1 cocktail
Ingredients
For the Turbinado Syrup:
2 cups Sugar in the Raw turbinado
1 cup water
For the cocktail:
1½ oz. 80-proof bourbon
¾ oz. Turbinado Syrup
½ oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
¼ oz. Crystal hot sauce
3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
Garnish: 1 chile de arbol
Preparation
To make the cocktail: Fill a rocks glass with crushed ice. Pour the bourbon, syrup, lemon juice, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce into a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with ice cubes. Cover and shake vigorously 20 times. Strain into the glass. Place the straw in the glass. To garnish, place the chile on the ice.
From Julep: Southern Cocktails Refashioned by Alba Huerta, copyright © 2018. Photography by Julie Soefer. Published by Lorena Jones Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
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Recipe notes
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