Here in the South, we LOVE our cocktails. Every Friday we like to share a new Southern Traditional, Southern-Created or Southern-Inspired Cocktail Recipe that we know you will enjoy.
Today’s Southern Cocktail is a New Orleans-Inspired take on my favorite cocktail. It is so delicious that it entered my “Cocktail Rotation” with the very first sip.
Southern Cocktail #12 is New Orleans Old Fashioned Cocktail
What I do not like is muddled fruit in my Old Fashioned Cocktails – which Delmonico version has. So I adapted Emeril’s recipe to my Old Fashioned recipe, which substitutes orange bitters and cherry bitter for the muddled fruits. It made it a cleaner, crisper drink. (Note – Peychards Bitters includes Cherry – so there is no need to muddle a Cherry or add Cherry Bitters to this recipe.)
Get Emeril’s Delmonico and try the recipe both ways and let us know below which is your favorite.
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New Orleans Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe
Yield: 1
Materials
- 2 ounces Bourbon
- 1/4 to 1/2 ounce Simple Syrup
- 4 to 5 dashes of Peychaud Bitters
- 2 dashes Orange Bitters
- 1 Cocktail Cherry
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a rocks glass.
- Stir to mix.
- Add a large ice cube or several small cubes.
- Stir gently to chill just a bit.
- Serve.
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Emeril’s Delmonico: A Restaurant with a Past
First opened in 1895, Delmonico Restaurant and Bar in New Orleans reopened its doors a century later to tremendous acclaim as Emeril’s Delmonico. In his latest cookbook, America’s favorite celebrity chef presents a collection of recipes that are adapted and simplified for home cooks, featuring a combination of Creole classics and Emeril’s kicked-up creations.
Emeril’s Delmonico offers 130-plus recipes from the restaurant–favorite dishes like St. Paul’s Seafood Gumbo, Shrimp Remoulade, and Chicken Rocambeau (prepared with marchand du vin and hollandaise sauces), and “newer” fare such as Chorizo and Manchego Cheese Omelet, and Lump Crabmeat and Brie Strudels with Herbsaint Cream Glaze.
Illustrated with both contemporary full-color and vintage black-and-white photographs, Emeril’s Delmonico paints a lively, evocative portrait of Emeril’s classic cuisine and the rich culinary history of New Orleans.
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Recipe Adapted from Emeril’s Delmonico. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.
