A Cocktail Recipe featured in Scones and Scofflaws Great Escapes Book Tour

Recipe for Spotlight on My Journey Back – Feb 10

 

Each of the books in the Cape May Cozy Mysteries with a Twist series feature a classic cocktail. At the end of each book, I share the recipe as well as a little history about the drink. For example, the term “scofflaw” was coined as the result of a competition in 1924. A wealthy prohibitionist wanted a word that would refer to lawless drinkers. He sponsored a contest and two participants came up with the same term: scofflaw. Scofflaw the drink was also created in 1924, in the midst of prohibition. But it was created at Harry’s Bar in Paris, not in the United States. We can guess it was named Scofflaw as a way of taunting those poor Americans who would be breaking the law if they drank it!

Scofflaw

Ingredients:

2 oz. Bourbon or rye whiskey

1 oz. dry vermouth

3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz. grenadine

2 dashes orange bitters

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker, add ice and shake. Serve in a cocktail glass. As with all cocktails, modify quantities to suit your taste!

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