This recipe makes two drinks, so set your glassware accordingly.
Ingredients:
-- 4 oz of bourbon
-- 1.5 oz Grand Marnier
-- 1 oz grenadine -- get the good stuff or you can make it yourself with pomegranate juice and sugar
-- 1 oz lemon juice
-- 0.5 oz pastis
-- egg white (!)
One egg white is enough for two drinks, which is why this is a two-drink recipe.
When you’re making an egg white drink, it’s helpful to first shake everything without ice (it’s called a dry shake) so you get enough egg white agitation to get a good foam.
Then add ice and shake again.
Pour. Get the nice eggwhite foam.
Then garnish with some nutmeg.
(From Speakeasy: The Employees Only Guide to Classic Cocktails Reimagined)
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Thank you Dr. Rachel. Love the cocktails.
South Carolinians might like this one.
Flaming Jesus
Ingredients
Instructions
Pour vodka, lime juice and grenadine into a shooter.
Slowly layer the 151 proof on top using an upside down spoon (drizzle).
Turn out the room lights, ignite the drink, bring near face, blow out, then drink.
Impressive when served to a group.
Do not try this if
the customeryou useshair spray or pomade (seriously).Rachel, thanks for the recipe, i ate a bad egg and now have salmonella poisoning, thanks for sharing.
I wrote in my vote for Obama today in Anderson, SC. Go Barack! 4 more years, please!
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Too bad Mittens does not read Maddowblog. If Intrade is right he might want to have a Millionaire later tonight -- even if he is a Mormon
I got in enough trouble with Vodka/7 and Russian Lullabys.
36 years later Millionaires don't even sound like something I would try, much less get in trouble for.
Thanks for keeping me sober, Rachel.
Bravo on the rescue! I usually use a sake cup to separate an egg (it's the perfect size) but yours was very impressive! My one criticism is that you didn't seem to care much for the Grand Mariner or the flavor of black licorice. I happen to love both. If you have a chance, try the 150 year (Cent Cinquantenaire... thanks Wikipedia) warmed in a snifter if you want to feel like a real millionaire. :)
You should have left the egg yolk in and called it a "Romney." He too, seems hard to swallow. Better yet, you could have put the whole yolk in the cocktail glass and poured the drink over it !
Lesbians under the bed. This is supposed to terrify me? (grin. Dunno why men are wired to go gaga over the whole concept of "lesbian", but the male id isn't supposed to make sense.)
Anyhow, on the egg separation. My mother taught me to use fingers to lift the yolk out of the white in the break-into dish before adding the white to whatever. But we were always working in a kitchen with a tap right there, not on TV.
I'm not much of a drinker. That seemed to be ten minutes of a skilled professional's time. How much are you supposed to tip for the fancy mixed drinks like this?
I'm not wired like that.
Precisely, Crackhead Awards. That's the way my mom taught it to me, anyway.
I learned to crack the egg in half, and then pour the yolk from shell-half to shell-half until the albumen has all run over the sides of the shell and the yolk is neatly contained in its half. Assuming, of course, you haven't accidentally broken it. You can also use the sharp edge of the empty half to cut the nasty little white cordish thing and get it out of the mix...
But a really sweet, foamy drink with salmonella potential just doesn't sound all that yummy to me. Let's serve it to republicans. They don't want regulations in the food industry, so let's let them get sick on raw egg.
This is the Rocky Balboa Special. Multitasking. How to train and party simultaneously!
Sorry to hear about your illness.
You should thoroughly mix the alcohol and lemon with the egg yolk and let it sit for a minute before diluting with ice. A hand mixer would be best because egg yolk has thick portions that won't mix well without being torn up. Stirring is not good enough. Alcohol and acid weaken bacteria enough for stomach enzymes to finish the job.
All eggs have some salmonella. This is a normal digestive bacteria for birds but it can kill mammals. This bacteria multiplies slowly just under the shell similar to how milk spoils. Refrigeration reduces how fast the bacteria grows, and cooking kills it. The "use by" date is for cooking and not raw egg consumption.
Quite a few people have low IgA, which increases risk.
You can't just consume any eggs raw. Eggs are like oysters, so only some are suitable for raw consumption, there is always a risk, they must be fresh, and they must have been refrigerated since collection. Best to use a catering supply.
Now you have to make a Santorum. (And violà, another egg-white drink!)
I think I'm a fan of the young lady who brought Maddow a spoon on the set. Vewy cuuuuute!
Just knew you were going to drop that egg yolk in that drink and than scoop it out nicely. The drink looks good make me one. People act like John McCain was some remarkable candidate, he wasn't. Don't you remember how he walked around on the stage like he was in the twilight zone. Let's get realistic, the Republicans are too busy working to line cash in their pockets than to think about doing something that is right and have their rich dark lords to take care of.
Wow they actually used King David that is just too good. One thing people forget about is King David fell from grace and was no longer allowed to build the holy temple, because of murdering another man to get his wife. David had betrayed the trust of what it took to be of the ruling class by using his power for his own personal needs. There is a moral to this story, when Republicans have way too much used their power for their own personal needs and have only served something much more darker.
Eggs come with their own yolk separator: the shell! Once you crack the shell, hold it vertically over a receptacle with the largest half on the bottom. That will hold the yolk, and then you use the smaller half of the shell to hold back the yolk while you pour the white into the receptacle. When the halves are pretty even, it is simple to just pour the egg back and forth between the two, with the goal being to let the white fall into a receptacle, while holding the yolk back with the opposing half. Full disclosure: the shell's edges have to be kept away from the yolk to prevent cutting the membrane that contains the yolk and mixing the two with no possibility for what we can now refer to as "spoon salvation." They also make a device that will catch the yolk and allow the white to fall into a receptacle below. (You've already commented on the obvious need to use a separate receptacle from your drink to prevent the possibility of spilling yolk into the main ingredients.)
A well-named drink, the Millionaire, like many complicated cocktails, requires significant investment to acquire the contributions of Grand Marnier and pastis, and is probably better enjoyed at a bar good enough to make you one. Then you'll know hether you like the drink well enough to add those to your home bar. And while I'm sure that the price of the drink will be high enough to cover those costs at a bar, don't forget to tip the bartender well enough to express your appreciation for the trouble he/she will have to go to. How much? If you want to call yourself a Liberal, now would be a great time to see just how liberal you can be. This is how your bartender makes a living, and I prefer to treat those that serve me like friends, not servants, so I tip them like a friend I'd like to see prosper and stay in business. People who carry around charts that help them know exactly what 10%, 15% or 18% of their bill is are not only mathematically challenged, they just don't get it generally.
"make a millionaire " is right. Because most working class folks can not afford to have the ingredients above that RAchel made that drink with. When will Maddow start talking about Bud light and PBR
Rachel is a millionaire, she berates millionaires, but she is one. maybe i am wrong, her ratings are a little light. Rachel, what say you?
That really depends on how much you drink and why. But I suspect the "working class folks drink beer" idea has less to do with affordability and more to do with stereotypes.
Working class folks most certainly can afford a $30 bottle of alcohol if they only drink occasionally. Not all of us go home and drink a six pack after work.
It's all about the choices you make, Kathleen.
How to make a Millionaire's Day: ingredients; gall, chutzpa, and audacity.
1. Appoint 5 uber-rightwing, activist judges to the Supreme Court
2. Sit back and enjoy
side effects: People who do not enjoy your 'Millionaire's Day' will make your life miserable.
thanks Rachel! You are the best!
Rachel under the bed, grabbing my ankles? How did she know about my reoccurring dream??? :) Anyway, with respect to the egg yolk, all hail Rachel, the new dexterity God!
See, I went a totally different track on that one. Does anyone else remember the video with the guy claiming that Maddow is a vampire? Now she claims to be a goblin....
... I don't know... at the very least, conservatives should be scared, I guess.
Not long after I finished watching the Rachel Maddow Show last night I decided to take her advice and try a shot with a shot of dill pickle juice as a chaser. As I was watching the show called Confessions: Animal Hoarding I did a shot of tequila and immediately after I did the shot the son of the animal hoarder started gagging when he came across a whole bunch of dog feces in the house. Since I did a shot of Cazadores Reposado I was okay after that very unsettling scene on the television and then I did the shot of pickle juice. I must say that if I had used the cheap tequila from my college days my dinner would've been all over the floor after seeing that sight on television. Cazadores, Patron, or Fortaleza tequila won't make you gag while watching animal hoarding programs.
Thanks Rachel, I'm going back to my coop to buy more pickles next Friday so I can have the pickleback with the brine after a shot of Cazadores.
I always thought that to make a millionaire you had to take a mommy millionaire and a daddy millionaire, get them drunk with power on caviar and champagne and then let nature take it's course.
No?
Well that is one way. Then there is Callista's way (just keeping it topical to the day).
Gosh,one question does this drink go well with a po boy sandwich?
Rachel, that drink sounds nasty... and like waaay too much trouble. Although it was kind of entertaining watching you make it.
I'll just take a straight-up shot of El Jimador, please. (Or if I'm feeling really decadent, a White Russian.) I'm a cheap date.
So, you make a millionaire by removing the yolk. Good point. I've never ever seen a millionaire with a yoke attached. However, it does seem like a crude play-on-words. If I drank a millionaire would it remove my yoke? Maybe two or three of them. Until they wore off and the next day I find the yoke re-attached. Like coming out of a movie theater after watching the movie. Back to your own reality. Back on the train...
have you tried allspice dram
Love the cocktail segment. Pastis and egg white make for a splendid bourbon drink. Take no prisoners, Rachel! Paul, Cocktail Buzz