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Date of upload: Mar 1, 2024 ^^
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I can’t remember where I read about the old absinthe house originally (I’ve been there since and partaken in some great absinthe) but somewhere I read that the old absinthe house is where the cocktail was officially born. Essentially the guy who founded it was French. He moved from France to NY in the late 1700s. He opened a general store there but his brother lived in New Orleans (Pre Louisiana purchase) so he eventually moved down to NOLA and opened a general store there, probably in the building now known as the old absinthe house. One of the things he sold was absinthe (a pretty normal spirit for a Frenchman to sell in a French town) but he started adding lime to the normally water and sugar cut concoction and sold that. It was a hit in the balmy bayou, and was popular enough to start being copied regionally and then nationally in varying forms. The cups he used to measure the fractions of ingredients had a French name that no one could remember. A word similar to croquet. So people in different areas started anglicizing the sound of the word for the measuring cups and saying cocktail instead of the hard to remember and say French word. And boom. Cocktails. Apparently his measuring cups became the origin of the modern bar jigger.
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'The madness being stirred up' ! You're a poet, Anders ! Absinth - I'd like to hear Daffy Duck say that word. Over 500K subscribers ! Good to see your channel growing. Would you believe I'm still looking for some Apple Brandy in Sydney to make a Pink Lady ? Your recipe, of course. All the best , Anders and partner !
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@AndersErickson
2 months ago
Absinthe - love it or hate it? 🧚♂
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