On Top of the Sheets

PH factor: 9.5

Recipe

Ingredients:

Cocktail

o 1 ounce Goslings Black

Seal rum (151 proof)

o 1 ounce Boulard Calvados VSOP

o 1 ounce Grand Marnier

o ½ ounce maple syrup

o 1 dash Angostura bitters

o ½ ounce Lemon Rosemary

Shrub (see: Syrups etc.)

o 1 dash apple cider vinegar

Garnish

o lemon twist

o rosemary sprig

Method:

1. Stir cocktail ingredients

over ice in a mixing glass.

2. Serve up in an Old-

Fashioned glass.

3. Garnish with rosemary

sprig and lemon twist.

Comments:

One day someone whose

taste I appreciate and whose

opinion I respect came back

from SXSW extolling the virtue

of shrubs. I cooked some up

and found a cocktail to go

with it. Now, I know what the

shouting was all about.

. . .