Orgeat Doesn’t Need Your Almonds
A new wave of alternative orgeat is being made from seeds, avocado pits and even day-old pastries.
- story: Kara Newman
- photo: Ed Anderson
Café Orgeat
A sustainable alternative to traditional almond orgeat using day-old almond pastries.
Scorpion Bowl
The Scorpion, like many tiki cocktails, has gone through countless iterations, from a gin and wine-laced libation to this contemporary version of Trader Vic’s 1946 recipe.
Peninsula Cobbler
A floral take on Sherry Cobbler made with oat-milk based orgeat and spritzes of rose water.
Color Me Dazzled
Oat milk-based orgeat combines with pastis and Granny Smith apple juice in this riff on the Mauresque.
Cocktails’ Best Supporting Ingredient: DIY Orgeat
Orgeat, an almond syrup dating back to the 1300s, has always played second fiddle to traditional cocktail sweeteners. But the old-school ingredient has a distinct personality, and is being renewed…
- story: Kenzi Wilbur
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Mount Olympus Collins
Using the blueprint of a basic Collins recipe, Brad Farran infused gin with fragrant Mount Olympus flower tea, added a dash of apricot liqueur and sweet almond orgeat syrup to…
Japanese Cocktail
First appearing in Jerry Thomas’s 1862 How to Mix Drinks, the Japanese Cocktail is accompanied with no explanation of its namesake, nor do its ingredients lead one to believe it…
