Wedding Sip
A rather strange cocktail made from a mishmash of ingredients that doesn’t taste alcoholic
City/Region: United States of America
Time Period: 1900
In the 19th century the thing to do was to have a big bowl of wedding punch, but if your ceremony was a bit more modest with only a handful of people, then this recipe from the turn of the century had you covered.
This cocktail has an odd assortment of ingredients and honestly tastes really weird. Not bad, but weird. The only flavor I can pick out is the pineapple, and it’s not sweet like I thought it would be. There’s a super clean aspect to it that cuts into your palate, and it doesn’t taste alcoholic at all. A very dangerous cocktail indeed!
“Wedding Sip.
Fill mixing glass two-thirds full fine ice.
1 teaspoonful of syrup or sugar.
1 teaspoonful of lemon juice.
1 teaspoonful of pineapple syrup.
1/2 wine glass of Port wine.
1/2 wine glass Dry Catawba.
1/2 pony glass Jamaica rum and Abricotine, equal parts.
Stir well and strain into a claret glass with fruit, dash with seltzer and serve.”
Ingredients:
- Ice
- 1 teaspoon simple syrup* or sugar
- 1 teaspoon pineapple syrup*
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 ounce (30 ml) port wine
- 1 ounce (30 ml) Catawba wine*
- 1/4 ounce (8 ml) Jamaica rum
- 1/4 ounce (8 ml) apricot brandy
- A few berries, whatever you like
- Seltzer
*See notes below.
Instructions:
- Put the ice in a mixing glass and add the simple syrup, pineapple syrup, lemon juice, port, Catawba, rum, and apricot brandy. Stir it well.
- Place a few berries into a serving glass. The recipe says a claret glass, and I used a coupe. Use something that’s about 5 to 8 ounces.
- Top it off with a bit of seltzer and serve it forth.
Notes
- You can find port, rum, and other liquors used on the channel in my curated collection at Curiada.
- You can make your own simple syrup by heating equal parts sugar and water until the sugar dissolves.
- I used Small Hand Foods Pineapple Gum Syrup. The gum adds extra smoothness to the body of the drink.
- Catawba used to be the most-planted grape in the US, but it’s hard to find today. Stone Hill Winery from Missouri makes the one that I used here: https://shop.stonehillwinery.com/stone-hill-winery-pink-catawba-p7.aspx
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