December 22nd, 2008
Snow & elderflower
Friday night, Central Square, the first blizzard of the winter season. I’ve just finished having cocktails at Cambridge’s solid new bistro Craigie on Main with a few of the ladies of LUPEC Boston — Pink Lady, Fancy Brandy (our shutterbug) and Saucy Sureau — and we’re about to snow-boot it over to Green Street to grab a nightcap with those young bucks behind the stick, Andy and Bice.
But wait … Saucy, who reminds me of a girl in a Northern Renaissance painting, has an idea. The snow piling up on the sidewalk is so fluffy and fresh … it’s actually edible. And, seeing that Saucy peddles St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur for a living and always has a supply on hand, along with some little plastic tasting cups … well, how ’bout a St. Germain Sno-Cone, girls? We make one extra and offer it to the bartender who has been concocting little gems for us all evening, Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli. It’s delicious. Saucy announces, “I’m entering this in a cocktail contest.” “You win!” we say, and throw the unspiked slush in the bottom of our cups back into the snowbank.
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December 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I’ve been impressed by the work at the bar at Craigie on Main, and especially their house-made re-creation of Antica Formula: it made for a terrific Martinez cocktail.
I can see the Saucy connection in that painting, but also: does that work of art represent the first historical appearance of a cocktail shaker?
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Good god, man — I didn’t even notice the resemblance between Mary’s jar of ointment and a cocktail shaker. Holy revelation.
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Mary Magdalene was a well-known good-time gal, after all. It kinda looks like a vintage Chase cocktail shaker in my collection.
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Now that’s some tasty-sounding yellow snow if there ever was any.
December 24th, 2008 at 5:14 am
St-Germain snow cones, the perfect winter cocktail!
December 24th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Pinky – wish you’d been there. Pink Lady – without a doubt.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
What an amazing combination. The fresh and floral flavors of the Elderflower definitely pairs well the the icy coolness of snow. FUN!