Monday, August 29, 2011
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"Mysterious Jackson area lawyer's blog about history, literature, and whatever irks him." -- NMC
"Just a hypersensitive pantywaist probably of Gallic descent who still suffers nightmares over what Gaius Julius did to your people 2,000 years ago." -- Kingfish
And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader.""I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)
Are you taking orders?
ReplyDeleteAre you laying down a gauntlet with regard to more traditional proportions?
I *wish* I could send, and order, drinks over the internet!
ReplyDeleteJust reporting on my recent experiments. The bottle of simple syrup I purchased bore a recipe with a much lower proportion of syrup - rather selfless of them - which Mrs. TBA found unpalatable. The 1:1:1 blend is sour, but not aggressively so.
I will not however impugn anyone who varies the proportions to taste, which is not an offense against ethics in the way a 2:1 martini is.
I see recipes that double the whiskey and scale down the syrup (3/4 oz, for instance). While I like this drink, I've never messed with it enough to have my own formula. It may vary some with how tart your lemons are, though.
ReplyDeleteDoubling the whiskey would bring the drink more in line with my preferred margarita recipe (2:1:1); I confess part of my aim was to find a formula that would satisfy my wife, who likes her drinks less strong than that. And if one shot of whiskey doesn't get a fella where he's goin', why, that's just a pleasant excuse to have a second drink.
ReplyDeleteI tried less syrup (like, 1 oz vs. 1 shot of the lemon juice) but found it too sharp.