Pisco Sour

If you have been to Peru, you have no doubt had more than one Pisco Sour, a classic South American cocktail that was supposedly invented in Lima in the 1920s.

Pisco from Peru in a super fancy bottle!

Pisco is a kind of brandy made with grapes- developed by Spanish colonizers in the 1600s.

I brought a couple of bottles back with me years ago and completely forgot I had one left.  So I whipped up a batch, which would be great with Peruvian shepherd's pie (a dish served to us when we hiked the Salkantay Pass with United Mice using mashed potatoes, red onions, tuna and avocado) or the famous Peruvian rotisserie chicken, macerated with garlic time and pepper- known in our house as "Norky's" chicken after the chain restaurant we frequented. 

Some good memories!

Ingredients

2 oz Pisco (Can be ordered from Liquor Depot)
1 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz simple syrup
1 Fresh egg white
2 dashes Prairie Rose Black Cloud bitters

Ice cubes

Method

Add all ingredients except bitters to cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for 30 seconds and strain into glass.  Add bitters on top of the foam.