The Jerry Thomas Project is the re-creation of all of Jerry Thomas’ cocktails from Jerry Thomas’ Bar-Tenders Guide: Receipts for Mixing in their purest form. Jerry Thomas is considered America’s father of mixology publishing the first cocktail book in 1862.
Well – good news is that the Catawba wine came. It is a rosé, which appears to be the only type of Catawba on the market. Anyhow, I’m not going to open it quite yet – but first take inventory of all the drinks that call for it so that I can hammer them out before the wine oxidizes. For the meantime, I made the White Lion – which is not white or has anything to do with a lion. I actually decided to make it because it is almost exactly the same as the Knickerbocker that I made a few days ago. The only difference is that you use lime juice instead of lemon juice in this recipe.
The White Lion
in modern day measurements
2 ounces Cruzan light rum
1/2 ounce Citronage
2 ounces raspberry syrup
2 ounces fresh squeezed lime
Raspberry syrup recipe
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cups frozen raspberries
Bring ingredients to a boil and immediately pull off. Let cool and then puree in a food processor.
Equally as delicious as the Knickerbocker – perhaps it would be delish to make a White Lionbocker, where you use both lemon and lime juice to mix the drink.
- Columbine Quillen I am a bartender and this is my blog.