Kosher Kocktails
The MetroWest Daily News reports that LeRoux Liqueur (produced by Jim Beam Brands, Co.) has expanded its kosher liqueur options with Sour Apple and Watermelon flavors, perfect for “martinis and tall drinks.” The article offers two recipes, the “LeRoux Appletini” and the “LeRoux Melontini.”
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Don;t we have enough fruity kosher liquerus? I wish someone would instead make/import a kosher dry vermouth that’s also drinkable, as it’s a key ingredient for ‘real’ martinis. (I refuse to call them ‘unflavored’ martinis, and the labelling of all those fruit cocktails as ___tinis is just evidence of a lack of imagination.) Right now, I either use my very short supply of kosher Italian vermouth a friend brought me from Israel, or the Hawkeye Pierce recipe: six parts gin, drink while looking at a portrait of "Lorenzo Schwarz, the inventor of vermouth." (A portrait of Antonio Benedetto Carpano, vermouth’s actual inventor, is an acceptable substitute in a pinch.)