PrintTime for a Drink: Marconi Wireless
Let's get this weekend started right. Here's a cocktail to kick things off. Need more than one? Here you go. Cheers!
New York’s contributions to the cocktail world are legion, but here’s a drink that includes a good dose of New Jersey. Combining Gotham ingenuity with the Garden State’s native spirit, the Marconi Wireless is a pretty simple cocktail: Take our good friend the Manhattan, but instead of using whiskey, reach for the applejack—produced in Monmouth County by the Laird family for more than 200 years.
In Old Waldorf Bar Days, published in 1931, Albert Stevens Crockett writes that the Marconi Wireless "first sprang across the Bar of the Waldorf when the ancestor of the radio began to raise its ghostly voice." While the precursor to the radio may be lost to the ages, this Marconi Wireless is still as vibrant as ever. Besides, I have yet to see a drink named the Streaming Audio.
Marconi Wireless
Adapted from Old Waldorf Bar Days.
Ingredients
2 ounces applejack
1 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters
Procedure
Pour ingredients into a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir briskly for 30 seconds, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry or a twist of lemon peel.
About the author: Paul Clarke blogs about cocktails at The Cocktail Chronicles and writes regularly on spirits and cocktails for Imbibe magazine. He lives in Seattle, where he works as a writer and magazine editor.
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4 Comments:
This is great! How can you not love a cocktail called "The Marconi Wireless"?
Adam Kuban at 5:31PM on 09/28/07
The best thing is that if you drink applejack the odds are that you will not get a hangover. A trick I learned form some older commercial glass blowers.
exvaxman at 11:14AM on 09/29/07
Where can you buy Laird Applejack?
gochrisgo at 12:12PM on 09/29/07
This rocks my world.
Every year I make an apple cider punch with Laird's for pumpkin carving festivities. There is often some leftover unmixed, and it is fantastic to have a new recipe in which to use the last bits. (It otherwise gets used medicinally in hot toddies during the first cold of the season.)
Laird's isn't that hard to find. In New York CIty you can find it at a surprising number of neighborhood liquor stores, and it is always in stock at Astor Place. In Boston, Marty's on Washington Street in Newtonville has it. The NH state liquor store carries it, as well.
Jenn Smith at 1:59PM on 10/03/07