No. 42, through and through. Lo-Fi Lush Hour’s a knockin’ and it gots the URGE to fuck you up, or at least to make you drink your booze. 
Today’s Toast, the Jack Rose, was a Wall-St fave back around 1900, a specialty of “Old Frank” Haas at Fred Eberlin’s on New St., just around the corner from the NYSE. His version was a bit trickier than the one that swept the nation a few years later. Still took clean hands, tho.
It’s an applejack drink. Laird’s is the champ here. Of their various expressions, the one on the left—the Bonded—is your best bet. But there are a bunch of other good apple brandies floating around these days, and most should be fine.
Haas’s formula, which was recorded by fellow Wall St bartender Jack Grohusko, has lime juice plus a bit of lemon and orange, sweetened with sugar and raspberry syrup. The nationwide version replaces the raspberry with the new and trendy grenadine. We’ll go with that, plus orange.
Tools. Standard shaken drink. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.
Start with half an ounce of lime juice.
Old Frank has a way of working his way back in. Since my last half-lime yielded more like a third of an ounce, I squoze in a few drops of lemon juice, Haas stylee.
Then to the half-ounce of sour, if you’ve got it pitch in a little orange wedge. Frank, the inventor of the Daisy, knew his shit.
Now the sweets. If you’ve got a good, artisanal grenadine, youncan just pour in a scant half ounce and move on. I don’t, so I’m gonna start with less than a quarter ounce of the radioactive shit.
Then I’m gonna rope in a ringer—another scant quarter ounce of the lovely Cartron crème de framboise, to give us Frank’s raspberry notes.
And then let’s round up to a half ounce with 1-1 simple syrup.
Now the hooch. You want a full two ounces of the Bonded Laird’s, if you can swing it.
Ice (no, don’t do this with it; just dump it in the shaker like a normal person).
And shark it up!
Strain it off.
And there stands the glass. And a fine one it is, if I do say so. Cheers, Frank!
Today’s Toast is brought to you by the Original Rays. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
(This fell out if the sequence when I was having WiFi issues.) After the jiuce goes in, drop the orange wedge in the shaker; don’t worry, the ice will murtalize it.
