Seeing Shuffle Along got Muff Julie thinking about Josephine Baker, that fabulous entertainer who was the toast of Paris in the 1920s. Julie wondered what cocktails Josephine might have preferred to drink at all those nightclubs she frequented. And since Julie is a professional chef, she had no trouble coming up with a cocktail that might have suited Josephine perfectly. It even has absinthe!
Allow yourself to be taken back. Here is Julie’s jazzy riff on The Metropolitan .
INGREDIENTS:
2 oz. Remy Martin VSOP
1 oz. sweet vermouth
1 tsp. yellow Chartreuse
2 dashes Angostura or Orange Bitters
1/4 oz absinthe
DIRECTIONS:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add all ingredients except the garnishes and stir. Strain into a brandy snifter.
Garnish with the following: 1 sprig of rosemary, 1 raspberry, 1 strip of orange peel.
Muff wannabe Patty likes to throw parties but can’t afford an on-staff mixologist. She puts out the wine bottles, the tub of bottled beer and soda and lets the guests fend for themselves. But she likes to offer a hard liquor option to those still celebrating the end of Prohibition, which frankly, is all of us. Here’s her Southwestern style party punch, one-bowl wonder for a crowd. She makes gallons of the stuff, taking healthy samplings every so often as she mixes, and stores it in the fridge for later replenishment of her closed-top punch dispenser.
