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#EGG WHITE WHISKEY SOUR HOW TO#

Do cut across if using a handheld reamer.

Cut off the ends then slice it in half lengthwise, not across, to get the most juice.

Once thawed, place it on the counter and use your hand or a rolling pin to firmly roll it back and forth before cutting.

The cell walls will rupture making for a more fruitful squeeze.

To get the most yield from citrus, place it in the freezer.

As the cold fruit contracts, it becomes more difficult to extract juice. Trying to juice lemons, or other citrus, pulled directly from the refrigerator is wasteful. Pour into a sealable container and keep refrigerated for up to six weeks. Rich Simple SyrupHeat 2 cups sugar and 1 cup water until all sugar is dissolved. Rub the rim of the glass with a lemon peel. Strain into a rocks glass over cubed ice.

Lemon peel and maraschino cherry for garnishĪdd whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white to a cocktail shaker.

#EGG WHITE WHISKEY SOUR HOW TO#

As Bodenheimer says, “There's really no limitation to what you can do with a Whiskey Sour.” How to Make a Whiskey Sour Skip the bottled sour mix and get creative using these fun tips. “It can handle a little bit of innovation, but the basic version is as good.” “There are a thousand things you can do to add a little twist to it and that's one of the things that great classics can do,” says Neal Bodenheimer, co-owner of Cure in New Orleans. “It's beautiful in its simplicity and it's delicious and it manages to be really fun, and it's also a really nice access point for whiskey for a lot of people,” says Dan Sabo, director of food and beverage at Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.Īs long as you stay focused on a balance of sweet, sour, and spirit, the Whiskey Sour leaves plenty of room for interpretation or tweaking to suit your palate. The drink may have originated with 18th-century sailors combining ingredients they had at hand, but the unbeatable balance of spirit, sugar, and citrus makes this drink transcend the whims of cocktail fashion. And the only reason I’ll say it’s optional is I don’t want to hear anyone’s stories about salmonella.Bright and buoyant, the Whiskey Sour is whiskey dressed for a summer day. “straight bourbon whiskey” from Michigan.įor this version, I went with a rocks glass and ice.

And although it’s called a whiskey sour, everyone said to use bourbon. They were also divided over whiskey quality. They were divided over serving them over ice in rocks glasses or in chilled coupes or short-stemmed sour glasses.

As I did my research on whiskey sours, recipes seemed divided on egg whites or not-and even those including egg whites tended to say they were optional. It doesn’t add flavor to a drink, it just adds luxe. In our ongoing cocktail adventures, Marion and I have come to take egg whites as shorthand for frothy, foamy drinks with a velvety mouthfeel. A lot of the usual suspects were there-Daiquiris, Negronis, Margaritas… But what caught my eye was a Whiskey Sour made with an egg white. What got me thinking about this was a recent article on VinePair, a website that believes in “covering drinking in a thought provoking way.” They asked seven bartenders to name the most underrated cocktail. Not a shot and a beer, but something classic without being overthought-something a good bartender makes from muscle memory. But old school drinks persist for a reason: sometimes you just want a drink. In countless bars and restaurants, we’ve puzzled over cryptic descriptions of inventively named drinks with housemade bitters, small batch spirits and surprising botanicals challenged willing bartenders to create something using a particular liquor and hitting vaguely described flavor notes and enjoyed the theatrics of the process-at Curio in Columbus, Ohio, a bartender flexed an orange peel and ignited the oil spraying from the skin. Whiskey SourįOR A COUPLE OF WINE LOVERS, Marion and I have been totally smitten by the craft cocktail scene that, happily, just doesn’t seem to quit. This one includes an egg white for a frothy head and a velvety mouthfeel.

The classic whiskey sour cocktail has many variations.