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Mamie Taylor Recipe

By taking the basic highball structure to the next level, this cocktail incorporates spice, flavored sweeteners, plenty of bitters, and underutilized liqueurs.
Mamie Taylor Recipe
Photography © 2015 by Brent Herrig Photoraphy. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

"Originally, this evocative name was connected to a straightforward Scotch highball. (Ms. Taylor, like many who have given their name to a mixed drink, was showfolk—an opera singer, in fact.). The creative combination of Strega and Scotch is not obvious, but it is a great stage effect nonetheless. Ring down the curtain."

Serves 1
Prep time: 10 minutes
Total time:

Ingredients

¾ ounce|21 ml ginger syrup
3 dashes mace tincture
3 dashes Boker's Bitters, or Angostura aromatic bitters
¾ ounce|21 ml fresh lime juice
½ ounce|14 ml Liquore Strega
2 ounces|60 ml Great King Street Scotch
1 ½ ounces|43 ml soda water
fresh nutmeg, grated, for garnish

Directions

Add all the ingredients, except the soda and garnish, to a shaker. Fill with ice and shake. Add the soda to the shaker and strain the mixture into an ice-filled tall glass. Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.

Excerpt from THE DEAD RABBIT DRINKS MANUAL by Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry. Copyright © 2015 by The Best Bar in the World, LLC. Photography © 2015 by Brent Herrig Photography. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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