Garnish:
Freshly grated nutmeg
How to make:
Gently BLEND all ingredients on a slow speed, then warm in a saucepan, gently stirring with a whisk (or microwave for 30 seconds and stir), POUR into warmed glass. If you make several servings in one batch, keep warm and serve from a sous-vide or heated soup kettle at to 60°C.
| 1 fresh | Egg yolk |
| 5 fl oz | Harveys Porter 1859 |
| 1 fl oz | Rémy Martin 1738 Cognac |
| 1/4 fl oz | Ginger liqueur |
| 3/4 fl oz | Demerara / dark Muscovado sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water) |
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Hazardous ingredients
Egg yolk is potentially hazardous if used incorrectly.
Review:
To quote Jamie Oliver, "the Huckle-my-buff is not a Dodo, but a Phoenix".
History:
Our adaptation of a recipe presented by Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty on Friday 9th August 2013, at Simon Difford's Cabinet Room, in London as their entry to the diffordsguide Beer-tail Competition for London Cocktail Week 2013.
Also known as Huckle-my-butt and Huckle-and-buff, Huckle-my-buff is an early 18th century hot drink combining gin or cognac and beer. Jamie and Jimmy resurrected the Huckle-my-buff and gave it a modern twist with the use of nitrous oxide and a sous-vide in place of the traditional red-hot poker.
The Jamie and Jimmy recipe was as follows: whisk 1 fresh egg yolk, then slowly whisk in 20 grams muscovado sugar, 35ml cognac, 150ml Harvey's Stout beer and 0.8ml ginger juice. Pour mixture into a soda syphon, close and charge with nitrous oxide (laughing gas/N2O). Gently warm the filled cream whipper to 60°C in a sous-vide (water bath). Discharge warmed syphon into glass. Finish with freshly grated nutmeg.
Nutrition:
One serving of Huckle my buff contains 232 calories.
Alcohol content:
- 1.3 standard drinks
- 8.6% alc./vol. (17.2° proof)
- 18.1 grams of pure alcohol
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