Posted on 05/05/2023 5:13:55 PM PDT by simpson96
In todays episode of Cocktails with Ciara, I (a big whiskey fan) am making a SAZERAC for the first time! A Sazerac cocktail has one of my most highly requested Whiskey cocktails to make on this series. This cocktail is made up of Rye whiskey, a few dashes of Peychaud's bitters, with an added rinse of absinthe in the glass. The Sazerac cocktail is one of the oldest out there, originating in New Orleans in the 1850's.
Whiskey Fan Makes a Sazerac For The First Time [Irish Gal makes cocktails at home - Ciara O'Doherty]
Ciara is gorgeous! Callie-Ann is as well!
Just discovered the Sazerac at Two Sisters on our last trip to New Orleans. When we got back we had to find the necessary ingredients. Awesome!
Wow, she is really personable. I’m seeing so many very highly polished how-to videos made by really personable and accomplished young folks. It’s great to see and I hope they all make a lot of money.
I’ll have to give this Sazarac a try!
Just discovered the Sazerac at Two Sisters on our last trip to New Orleans. When we got back we immediately had to find the necessary ingredients. Awesome!
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Must be a slow news day
The background, reported in an article in the Nevada Appeal, is interesting and pretty funny, as is the book still today. Apparently Fred Hart was way ahead of his time in relying on news from, shall we say, less-than-reputable sources:
Nineteenth-century journalist Fred Hart knew exactly what he was doing when he created the Sazerac Lying Club in the pages of Austin’s Reese River Reveille in 1873.
Hired earlier that year, Hart was a sometime miner and itinerant newspaperman who previously worked at the Evening Telegram at the eastern Nevada mining town of Hamilton, the White Pine News in Ely and later as editor of the legendary Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City for a short time.
Hart, however, is best known for the work he crafted while editor of the Austin newspaper from 1873 to the late 1870s, particularly a long-running series of fake news stories about a concocted social club known as the Sazerac Lying Club.
In a collection of his work, “The Sazerac Lying Club: A Nevada Book,” published in 1878, Hart noted that his job at the Reveille was to write everything from advertisements for lost dogs to lengthy dissertations on the issues of the day.
News, however, often was hard to come by because Austin was such a remote and relatively isolated place. He admitted to raiding other newspapers for stories but often found local news was still scarce on occasion.
He said one of the places he regularly visited to pick up on good gossip or story ideas was a local saloon named “The Sazerac” after a famous brand of brandy. He said that after listening for many nights he came to realize there was little fact-based news to be found in the bar but plenty of “stories [that] were generally so outrageously devoid of all semblance of truth or appearance of probability.”
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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