bitters
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Add a Little Campari to Your Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry sauce is probably the easiest holiday dish you can make from scratch. Add 340g of cranberries to a pot, along with a cup of sugar and a cup of water. Bring to a boil and let simmer until the cranberries pop and reduce into a thick, jelly-like sauce. Put it on turkey and eat…
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Make Love Stay With the Intro to Aperol
In his popular — albeit questionable and somewhat callow — 1980 novel Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins prescribes the following three ways one can employ to Make Love Stay:
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Add a Little Maple Syrup to Your Scotch
I’ve already said it several times, but I really do think that maple is an underrated cocktail syrup. It’s sweet and rich, and — thanks to its fairly thin body — goes into solution with extreme ease. I like it in Old Fashioneds, I like it in Juleps, and — as of last night —…
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You Should Rinse Your Empty Vanilla Extract Bottles With Booze
Vanilla is an important ingredient, a complex ingredient, an expensive ingredient. Even if you’re not a big baker, the vanilla bean and its extract can be used to bring nuance, depth, and the implication of — but not the taste of — sweetness to any food or beverage. In addition to sweets, baked and otherwise,…