The Hoecake Hearth
Brown-butter washed bourbon with honey and toasted corn — Washington's favorite breakfast, recast as a fireside sip
Washington's famous love of hoecakes with butter and honey begins here.
Why this cocktail? Washington loved hoecakes with butter and honey. This bourbon translates that breakfast into a warm, grain-driven founding-era sip.
The Story
If Washington's favorite breakfast became a cocktail, it would begin with butter, honey, and grain. This brown-butter washed bourbon with toasted corn and honey honors the breakfast that followed him into history — rustic in origin, polished in execution, and rooted in Virginia corn rather than imported glamour.
Ingredients
- 2 oz brown-butter washed bourbon
- 0.5 oz honey syrup
- 0.25 oz toasted corn syrup
- 2 dashes black walnut bitters
- Orange peel
Preparation
- 1.Stir bourbon, honey syrup, toasted corn syrup, and bitters with ice.
- 2.Strain over a large cube in a rocks glass.
- 3.Express orange peel over the top.
- 4.Serve without garnish clutter — simple and direct.
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