Buster Brown whiskey sour
This is a really nice vairaiton on the traditional whiskey sour cocktail.
Ready
- 2 oz bourbon or rye whiskey
- ½ oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- ½ oz simple (sugar) syrup
- 1 Tbl egg white
- Dash of bitters
- Ice
- slice of orange for garnish
Set
- Cocktail shaker
Go
- Add ingredients to cocktail shaker
- Shake well.
- Strain into a highball glass.
- Garnish and serve.
What you should know
Worried about raw egg in your cocktail relax — “according to Christopher Baden, MD, the head of the food-borne illness shop at the Centers for Disease Control (and a refreshingly non-alarmist official). The risk that a given egg is tainted with salmonella is about 1 in 20,000, and the fact that you’ll be drinking alcohol is some reason to relax. According to the journal Epidemiology a few years back, alcohol appears to provide a modest “protective effect’ against salmonella. The evidence came from a wedding buffet in Spain with tainted potato salad. Just about every one of the guests who ate it got sick — expect, that is, for those who were drinking alcoholic beverages.” Eric Felten author How’s Your Drink?
Served this last night to some buddies before dinner. It’s a great drink. I was nervous about the egg white, but it lends the cocktail a satin finish and wonderful, textural depth.