Category Archives: Egg-white

Cointreau, Egg-white, Gin, Lemon, Spirits

Hitch’s White Lady

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Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite cocktail, at least when visiting Harry’s Bar in Venice, was the White Lady; his treatment of ladies, and for that matter of actors in general was less gentlemanly. Tippi Hedren, who had starred in one of the director’s best known films ”The Birds” (1963) later commented:

”Hitchcock was more careful about how the birds were treated than he was about me. I was just there to be pecked.”

The White Lady

  • 1½ oz gin
  • ¾ oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • and 1 egg white shaken over ice [1]

If one listens to that song for long enough, one begins to have sympathies for the birds. Please make it stop.

[1] ”The Globe and Mail” – http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/wine/orson-welles-alfred-hitchcock-and-the-four-best-gin-cocktails/article24909884/

Bourbom, Egg-white, Lemon

The Whiskey Sour

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Richard Sherman: “Miss Morris, I’m perfectly capable of fixing my own breakfast. As a matter of fact, I had a peanut butter sandwich and two whiskey sours.”

As Miss Morris, when we hear “The Seven Yea Itch” (1955), we think Whiskey Sours; and vice versa:

  • 1½ oz Bourbon Whisky
  • 1 oz fresh lemon juice
  • ½ Gomme syrup
  • 1 dash egg white

Shake with ice, strain into ice-filled old-fashioned glass and serve on the rocks … and try to keep your eyes on the drink.

Agave, Egg-white, Fernet-Branca, Lemon

The Tiny Hands

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Michael Williams: [sees dozens of stick-men hanging from trees] “No red-neck is this creative.”
“The Blair Witch Project” (1999).

The Tiny Hands cocktail was purportedly thought up by Deidre Darling of Chicago’s The Savoy, who describes the drink: “The cocktail is further enhanced by the bitterness of the Fernet-Branca. The garnish was inspired by the formation of dolls out of wooden sticks.”

  • 1½ oz Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum infused with Forbidden Forest Lapsang Souchong Tea*
  • ½ oz Fernet-Branca
  • 2 full eye droppers of chocolate mole bitters
  • ½ oz lemon juice
  • ½ oz agave nectar
  • 1 egg white

Fill all ingredients into a shaker, shake to emulsify egg white, add ice and shake to chill. Strain and garnish with cinnamon sticks, cloves and tea leaves.*To infuse Sailor Jerry Rum with tea, soak tea bags in rum. Let steep. Strain before use.

Egg-white, Grapefruit, Tequila

Annie’s Tequila Cocktail

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Perhaps the obvious choice of a Manhattan is not a fitting one for Annie, played by Diane Keaton in the Academy Award-winning film ”Annie Hall” (1977), it certainly doesn’t fit her personality nor her dress style (the latter created by costume designer Ruth Morley (right) prompted ”The Annie Hall Look”, the “layering of oversized, mannish blazers over vests, billowy trousers or long skirts, a man’s tie, and boots” [2]).

A few attempts at creating a fitting drink for someone ”who grew up in a Norman Rockwell painting” have been made; personally I liked best this foamy lavender-pinkish creation found at thestar.com ‘s “Food and Drink” [1], which is… what was it I wanted to add? … oh well … “la-dee-da, la-dee-da.”

*The Annie Hall Cocktail”

  • 2 oz tequila blanco
  • 1/2 oz lavender syrup (see below)
  • 1 oz white grapefruit juice
  • 1 egg white
  • grapefruit twist to garnish
  • ice

Lavender Simple Syrup:

  • 1 cup (250 mL) water
  • 1 cup (250 mL) granulated sugar
  • 1 tbsp (15 mL) dried lavender

For the lavender syrup, bring water and sugar to a boil over high heat in a small saucepan and add lavender. Reduce the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes, strain, discard lavender and refrigerate until chilled.

For the cocktail, shake (without ice) tequila, syrup, juice and egg white in a cocktail shaker, add ice; and shake again 25 to 30 times. Strain ingredients into a coupe and garnish with a grapefruit twist.

[1] http://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/recipes/2010/09/07/the_annie_hall.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Hall#Legacy_and_influence