Fashionable Fig

Ingredients

Yield:

Serves 1

• • 2 oz. Mitchners Bourbon
  • 1 oz. Fig Syrup (see recipe)
  • 2 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fasion Bitters
  • 2 dashes Peychauds Bitters
  • 1 Pomegranate Marinated Fig (see recipe)

• Fig Syrup

  • 1 jar Fig Jam
  • water

• Pomegranate Marinated Figs

  • 30 Dried Figs
  • 4 oz. Pomegranate Juice
  • 3 oz. Simple Syrup
  • 6 dashes Angostura Bitters

Preparation

Difficulty:

easy

Time:

5 Minutes

1. Fig Syrup Recipe

   • Remove the lid from one jar of fig jam. Microwave for 30 seconds.
   • Scoop contents into a pitcher.
   • Boil water in a tea kettle.
   • Fill glass jar to the top with hot water from the tea spout. Stir until dissolved.
   • Chill and put into squeeze bottle.

2. Pomegranate Marinated Fig

   • Cut dried figs in half and put into storage container.
   • Combine pomegranate juice, syrup, and bitters.
   • Pour pomegranate marinade over figs. (This marinade can be used several times.)

3. Cocktail

   • Combine bourbon, fig syrup, and bitters into mixing glass.
   • Add ice and shake vigorously.
   • Strain over fresh ice.
   • Garnish with marinated fig on a pick and orange twist.