Our daughter Erin is a mixologist in New York City. For years she has created cocktail recipes. Currently one of her recipes is in a bartender competition and Erin needs people to vote for her recipe. Voting and Erin’s recipe are on Facebook under The First Cut.

Diorama of a distillery at the Grand Marnier display at the Musée du Vin in Paris, France

The recipe:

1.5 oz Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge
0.5 Cocchi Americano
1.0 oz Cutty Sark Prohibition
2 dashes hella citrus bitters
1 dash orange blossom water

Voting on Facebook is a bit of a challenge. Visit the Grand Marnier Facebook page.

Scroll to the bottom of the page window and click on the Vote Now button. That should take you to a map of the United States. Click on New York state. Scroll down to The First Cut and click on that box. You can then vote.

The liquor Grand Marnier was created in the 19th century. Green orange peels were steeped in alcohol and then fermented. The spirit produced was blended with sugar, wine brandy or cognac. After filtering the liquor is matured in oak barrels for several months. Cutty Sark is a blended Scotch whisky. The company began in the early part of the twentieth century. The Prohibition version of the whisky blend was a salute to Captain William McCoy who smuggled Cutty Sark into America during the country’s Prohibition.

Take a moment and vote for Erin’s recipe.

Cheers,
Terry