He’s back. Last year Tim Federle, lover of puns and cocktails, wrote Tequila Mockingbird, a tome both clever and intoxicating — in concept and flavor.
Now we have Hickory Daiquiri Dock, cocktails with a nursery rhyme twist. I asked one of Suzen’s culinary advisors, a woman with two young children, if she would like book of nursery rhymes for her kids. She seem receptive so I wanted to give her a preview. I read her Humpty Drunky from this lovely book:
Humpty drunky leaned on a wall,
Humpty drunky had a great fall,
All his wife’s nagging and months of “But, when?”
Couldn’t get Humpty aroused once again.
Now, I find the rhyme disarmingly funny. But, for some reason, the mother reacted with a little look of horror and fled. She never had time to consider the cocktail recipe this rhyme goes with:
Ingredients:
- 1 egg white
- 1 ¾ ounces mescal
- 1 ¾ ounces cranberry juice
- ½ ounce agave syrup
Preparation:
Place everything in a cocktail shaker and dry shake for 20 seconds. Fill the shaker with ice and shake again for 10 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass.
Sounds like a romantic meeting of Mexico and New England to me. I have to buy a new bottle of Ocean Spray to try it but I shall.
Hickory Daiquiri Dock has 21 recipes and rhymes to amuse and intoxicate you. Perhaps, it is true, this book is not for every single person. But a new mom, ones whose kids don’t read yet, just might chuckle. And if you have cocktail loving friends, ones who are difficult to please with holiday presents, then surely this book would be a grand gift. If you enjoy laughter and liquor, you might give yourself a present, too.