As Stiff was vacationing in Vegas, he snared a drink menu from CUT at the Palazzo. It included the classic martini-driven Aviation cocktail. To scale the CUT recipe to the average Joe price and the liquors used thus far, try the following recipe. It’s not as sweet as you think!
2 ounces of Gordon’s gin
½ ounce of Parfait Amour
½ ounce of fresh lemon juice
2 or 3 dashes of maraschino simple syrup
Shake on ice and strain.
The one pictured used Wishniak instead of the simple syrup, CUT used Luxardo maraschino liqueur. I stirred the one pictured for a soft tawny color because Wishniak is red. The one at CUT is likely shaken and retains a bit of lavender from the Amour because Luxardo is clear and the lemon juice should froth opaque. Those that can get Luxardo for the recipe should do it- it will have better color, better life, and is much closer to its 1916 original.
Parfait Amour can be found at Internet Wine and Spirits.
ReplyDeleteSo what do you do when you don't have any fresh lemons, and you have this bottle of Cherry Marnier that you can't seem to do anything with?
ReplyDeleteWell, I substituted GG Le Citron for the lemon juice, used a little over 1/8 tsp of Cherry Marnier instead of maraschino and made a pretty tasty Aviation
Nice. We are now buying our Amour from Astor wines- http://www.astorwines.com/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?p=0&search=19224&searchtype=Contains
ReplyDeletethat looks to be a lot less than I paid, and their Benedictine is way less too. Damn
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