Autumn Old Fashioned.
Why you are pouring this tonight
The Fig and Honey Old Fashioned is the Old Fashioned for the four weeks of autumn when fresh figs appear at the markets and you walk past them and cannot, in good conscience, leave them there. Bourbon, half a fresh fig muddled in, honey syrup, three dashes of Angostura, an expressed orange peel and a fresh fig wedge to garnish. The drink for a Sunday in March when the eucalypts are starting to drop bark.
Fresh figs only when in season (February to May in Australia). Off-season, use 5mL of Briottet fig liqueur. Don’t muddle the fig too hard; you want the juice and the colour, not the seeds in the drink. Use Buffalo Trace or Knob Creek for the bourbon. Honey syrup is 3:1 honey to hot water. Stir for thirty seconds in a mixing glass, double-strain over a single big rock, expressed orange peel skin-down, fig wedge on the rim. Pair with blue cheese, prosciutto-wrapped figs, an autumn cheese plate, the end of a long lunch.
What to pour it alongside
Blue cheese, prosciutto-wrapped figs, autumn cheese plate.
Notes
Fresh figs only when in season (Feb-May AU). Off-season, use 5 mL fig liqueur (Briottet) or skip the fig entirely, the cocktail is excellent without it.
The recipe
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