Posted by Erin Zimmer, December 7, 2007 at 3:30 PM
After getting through our first birthday at Serious Eats this week, we tip our hats to Laird’s AppleJack Distillery over in Scobeyville, New Jersey, lighting the 227th candle on the cake this year. Woo, geezers.
America's oldest apple brandy tastes sweeter than French Calvados but stronger than a chuggable Strongbow or Bulmers cider. It's an obvious favorite here in the cocktail department, but in solid food form? Gasp! Never have we ever.
The all-American booze can be spilled all over sausages, hot dogs, or wieners of any kind in this recipe. Somewhere out in Scobeyville right now, the Laird family has stopped picking Winesaps, Staymans, and Pippins to start fermenting. And that'll hopefully continue for another 227 years. Pick up a 750mL bottle of historic AppleJack—about six pounds of apples goes into each— and check-out other recipes on Laird's homepage.
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Posted by Paul Clarke, September 28, 2007 at 5:00 PM
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.
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