Best Side Old Fashioned
The sweet potato casserole… OLD FASHIONED? Yep, she did it.
Next up on the #FestiveOldFashioned series with @oldforester is the wonderful Jessica Ford (@queenofcoupes) with a riff on the Old Fashioned using one of my favorite sides during any holiday dinner, the sweet potato casserole. Check out her details below.
“As soon as the holiday theme was mentioned, I knew I had to make an old fashioned riff of my favorite holiday side, sweet potato casserole. I chose Old Forester 1910 because the heavy char on the cask used for secondary aging imparts the perfect flavor profile for this riff: sweet caramel and toffee notes, smokey vanilla that’s reminiscent of toasted marshmallow, and well integrated baking spices.”
ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Bourbon
½ oz | 15 ml Pecan Syrup
2 Dashes or ½ Dropper Cinnamon Bitters
Homemade Toasted Marshmallows
instructions:
Bourbon: infuse 10g sweet potato to 200g 1910, for at least 5 hours.
Pecan syrup: toast 1 cup of pecans then lightly crush, and add to 2 cups of hot water and ¾ cup vanilla sugar. Let sit for at least 3 hours, up to overnight. Puree and strain through a coffee filter - this can take some time.
Build the drink: Add bourbon, pecan syrup, and at least 2 dashes or half a dropper of cinnamon or cassia bark bitters. Stir and serve on the rocks, and serve with house made marshmallow skewers, rolled in nuts or sanding sugar or however you best enjoy them!
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Style is personal. So why should your cocktail try to copy somebody else’s?
I teamed up with my friends at Ralph Lauren Fragrances to build a cocktail around their Ralph’s Club New York Parfum, and the fragrance did most of the talking. Black currant, cognac, oud wood. That’s basically a drink order.
So we built a Manhattan style sipper with cognac as the base, swapped the sweet vermouth for creme de cassis and a touch of dry vermouth, added a barspoon of absinthe and a few dashes of bitters, then finished it with an expressed lemon twist for brightness. Given the NY roots on this bottle, I’m calling it The State of Mind.
Cheers, y’all!