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Mae Rose, the cocktail from the January issue of Bon App, which uses pamplemousse liqueur. We loved it! Related posts: Cocktail Recipe: Jack Rose A Christmas Walk and a Red Rose On the Longest Day of the Year, Rosé and […]
Another great discovery on Food52, where they call this Grapefruit Margarita a Midwinter Margarita. (As in “In the bleak?) We love a margarita recipe that uses grapefruit juice — because you know this time of year we’ve got grapefruit! It’s adapted […]
Rosie Schapp, who created this Clementine Sour cocktail for the New York Times, likes to call it the Christmas Day Clementine Sour. And that is indeed when we enjoyed it. But I am editing the title of the drink for […]
Here’s to a week nearly over. Old Overholt with a splash of vermouth. Related posts: Double-Cut Pork Chops and The Great Gatsby Cocktail Recipe: Rye Manhattans Sam at Didier Dumas Patisserie Cocktail Recipe: Old Fashioned
A chill in the air, so we go brown. Whiskey sours! Recipe here: Whiskey Sour recipe. Related posts: Whiskey Sour Maple Rye Sour Grilling Season Opens at Sour Cherry Farm New York Sour
After watching Nucky & pals sipping El Presidente cocktails on their trip to Cuba on Boardwalk Empire, we were inspired to try one the next night. After paging around for a few recipes, we settled on this ratio of 1 […]
I know, I know, it’s like wearing white. You’re just not supposed to do G&Ts after Labor Day. But who cares!? Let’s end this summer right! Cheers to G&Ts on the patio. See our recipe here: Gin & tonic recipe. […]
Inspired by a post I came across on TheKitchn, we decided to shake up some gin cocktails this Friday night. I found their Fitzgerald cocktail recipe to be a bit sweet, so I’ve taken the simple syrup down for this […]
Greg is doing a story on Dave Arnold’s upcoming book, Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail. I’ll let him update this post with a recipe, which involves freezing and stirring things, but for now, here is […]
Don’t forget last year’s delishy discovery of gin with Fentiman’s Rose Lemonade! We call it a Rosy Gin. It is delicious, and you should drink it tonight. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:6] Related posts: Cocktail Recipe: Rosy Gins Sunday Night Supper: Rosy Gin and […]
I present the South Slope Cocktail. The recipe comes to us from the beloved The PDT Cocktail Book: The Complete Bartender’s Guide from the Celebrated Speakeasy,” and, even though I own the book, was brought to my attention by Mr. Ed […]
In its May-June 2014 issue, Imbibe magazine did a feature on New Classic Cocktails. One of the prerequists for inclusion was this: “Simplicity. We love the creativity of many of today’s bartenders, but there are no guarantees that future generations […]
The weather was rainy and chilly, but we paid it no mind. We were going summer this Saturday night, even if it had to be indoors. Say hello to The Southside highball. The Southside 8-10 fresh mint leaves, plus a […]
The Farm’s friend Ed loves a cocktail as much as we here at SCF. So for a couple years now, I’ve been badgering Ed to write a story about cockatils with local history for The Journal News. The Mad Men […]
With its lemony pucker but a nice backbone of rye, the Whiskey Sour is a good cocktail for straddling the seasons. The warmth of brown booze, but the hopefulness of citrus. Spring will come. It will. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:15] Related […]
Jill recommended we make this drink, a take on the Propsect Park Sour that she loves to order at Clover Club in Brooklyn. It was a big hit. The recipe from Saveur calls for Abano, a type of Amaro. If […]
I had a hankering for something bitter and bracing — to match the bitter and bracing weather outside. Looking for something amaro-ish, I was torn between the Red Hook and the Brooklyn. Each is rye based, which is what I […]
Greg used to say that the sidecar is thought to be the oldest cocktail. It’s so old, he used to say, that Moses carried a thermos of them with him as he crossed the Red Sea. Well maybe not quite, […]
A nice option for our delishy grapefruit from the Rio Grande. From Bon Appetit. As is most everything we like to cook these days! We ran out of rye on day 2 of these, and substituted Canadian Club. Worked great! […]
I wrote a story on punch in The Journal News this week. I learned a lot, and so can you, if you read it! (Link here: Punch up your holiday drinks.) Then, to my wonderful surprse, Kris and Tom made […]
Our annual grapefruit shipment has arrived from the Valley! First on the agenda? Salty Dogs, of course! Here’s the recipe: [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:37] Salty Dogs From Raising the Bar. 1 to 1 1/2 grapefruits (juice to equal 8 ounces) 2 tablespoons sea or kosher […]
Another winner of a recipe from Bon Appetit. This time a cocktail, the New York Sour. Hat tip to Sarah at the Sister Outpost for the recommendation. We learned here about “the dry shake,” where you shake the egg white […]
We made this in honor of Repeal Day, which is Dec. 5. But Dec. 5 being a Thursday this year, we didn’t want to get too high-octane until Friday. So Dec. 6 it was. The Corpse Reviver was included in […]
Follow my directions implicitly, and you will enjoy the best Bloody Mary you’ve ever had in your life. It is called the Snappy Bloody Mary. Drinking, as you may know, is like eating: It’s much better when you start with […]
A twist on the classic, a recipe from Audrey Saunders. Perfect Parallel 12 ounces Lairds apple jack 1 1/2 ounces sweet vermouth 1 1/2 ounces dry vermouth 4 dashes angostura bitters Shake vigorously and strain into chilled cocktail glasses. Garnish […]
Over at Small Bites, we have embarked upon the Manhattan Project! If you follow Small Bites on Instagram (link to Small Bites Instagram here), or Twitter (@small_bites) you may have noticed a certain hashtag flying around some evenings: #manhattanproject. For the […]
A nice aperitif, light and refrshing. It may be pink, but it’s not a pansy drink. From Cocktail: The Drink Bible for the 21st Century. We took the Cointreau up because the original recipe was a bit too tart for […]
Thanks to our friends Jill and Clay, we enjoyed a barrel-aged Negroni on the patio on Monday night. Monday night? Yes, folks. I’m on vacation. Not that not being on vacation ever stopped us before. Now, you may not be […]
A new highball is making the rounds at the farm. I mix gin with Fetimans Victorian Rose Lemonade and garnish with a lavender sprig. It’s floral, light and refreshing. And the fizz is nice, too! Rosy Gins 2 ounces gin […]
It’s easy to call a cocktail a “blueberry” cocktail, just muddle some blueberries at the bottom and call it a day. That’s what we’ve done here with Capirinhas. I’ve adjusted the caipirinha recipe a bit since I first posted our […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
