Friend of Jack

Discerning Drinkers (2 ratings)

Serve in a

Coupe glass
Ingredients:
1 fl oz *Special ingredient #1 (see above)
1 fl oz *Special ingredient #2 (see above)
1/6 fl oz *Special ingredient #3 (see above)
1/6 fl oz Blood orange liqueur
2 dash Fernet Branca liqueur
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Read about cocktail measures and measuring.

Garnish:

Cone filled with roasted & salted walnuts pegged to rim (roast walnuts with sea salt in pan for about 15/20 min on low heat)

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Special ingredient #1: Duck fat washed Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7
Pour bottle of Jack Daniel’s into pan with 200g duck fat. Cook on low heat until duck fat melted. Allow to cool enough to pour into a sealable container and then freeze. This will allow the duck fat to be strained out of the whiskey. Return the duck fat washed whiskey to bottle for use.

Special ingredient #2: Pear & Honey Posca
Skin 5 pears and cook with bottle of white wine and ½ cup of honey until pears become translucent. Strain throw coffee filter and bottle ready for use.

Special ingredient #3: Tansy & pisco tincture
Infuse 200ml pisco with 5 soup spoons of tansy for 3 days or cook for 3 hours/55˚C in water bath. Strain through coffee filter and the tincture is ready to use.

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History:

Created in 2016 by Julija Bernatovica at The Drugstore Social, Glasgow for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Calling competition.

Nutrition:

One serving of Friend of Jack contains 25 calories.

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New Year's Day image

New Year's Day

If Auld Lang Syne left your throat dry? And dancing left your feet sore? And drinking left your head fuzzy? Then resist the temptation to curl up in bed

Hot Toddy Day image

Hot Toddy Day

In the days before ice was easily available - and in most parts of the world, you needed to be pretty much royalty to own an ice house and keep it stocked

The day Prohibition started image

The day Prohibition started

One minute after midnight on this day in 1920, the Volstead Act became law and Prohibition descended on the United States, making it illegal to possess,

Beer Can Appreciation Day image

Beer Can Appreciation Day

Here at Difford's Guide we're huge fans of beer cans – indeed we prefer cans to bottles. So we're happy to support this marketing gimmick of a day from

Burns Night image

Burns Night

The evening of January 25th is when Scots everywhere hold Burns Suppers in honour of the birth of Scotland's favourite poet and son, Robert Burns. Born

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Brandy Alexander Day

For no particular reason we know of, today has been declared Brandy Alexander Day. Hoorah!

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