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Sazerac Cocktail

(Makes 1 Cocktail)

Created By Antione Amedee Peychaud in New Orleans around the 1830's.  This is the first documented cocktail.

Ingredients
3 oz. Rye Whiskey (Recommend Wild Turkey 101)
1/2 oz.  Simple Syrup made from Demerara Sugar (See recipe below)
3 Dashes Peychaud's Bitters
Absinthe or Pernod to coat the glass
1 Thinly sliced lemon round

Directions

  1. Chill a rocks glass in the freezer.
  2. Fill a pint glass with ice and pour the first three ingredients into the glass.  Stir.
  3. Remove rocks glass from the freezer and pour about a teaspoon of absinthe onto the side of the glass and turn the glass so that the liquor coats the inside of the glass.
  4. Using a cocktail strainer, cover the glass with the ice and whiskey mixture and pour the concoction into the absinthe laced glass.
  5. Squeeze the lemon over the top of the drink and garnish with a lemon twist!

Demerara Syrup
(Makes About 2 cups)

Ingredients
2 Cups Demerara Sugar (or Turbinado Sugar or Sugar in the Raw)
1 Cup Water

Directions

  1. Pour both ingredients into a small pot and heat on the stove on a medium flame.  Stirring throughout so not to burn.
  2. When the liquid is heated through and all the sugar has dissolved remove the pot from flame. 
  3. Cool the simple syrup in the fridge.  When completely cool pour into a bottle and store in the refrigerator.  This keep for at least 2 months in the refrigerator!  Can be used in many cocktails, chilled coffees or dessert applications!
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