"Canadian Lyric" cocktail?
Adam Funk
cocktail:
...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
shaken up with cracked ice.
It isn't on teh interweb --- has anyone else heard of it?
I think it sounds good, but I haven't seen anything specifically
labelled as rye whiskey here (in the UK). Would any decent "Canadian
whiskey" be appropriate?
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wrote:
>"A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
>cocktail:
>
> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
> shaken up with cracked ice.
>
>It isn't on teh interweb --- has anyone else heard of it?
Never heard of it; neither has the hubster.
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Otto Bahn
> "A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
> cocktail:
>
> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
> shaken up with cracked ice.
>
> It isn't on teh interweb --- has anyone else heard of it?
>
> I think it sounds good, but I haven't seen anything specifically
> labelled as rye whiskey here (in the UK). Would any decent "Canadian
> whiskey" be appropriate?
Yes.
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Adam Funk
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:44:40 +0100, Adam Funk <a24...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
>>cocktail:
>>
>> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
>> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
>> shaken up with cracked ice.
>>
>>It isn't on teh interweb --- has anyone else heard of it?
>
> Never heard of it; neither has the hubster.
I thought it was a long shot anyway --- the book was written in the
1950s and the characters who mix it are Canadians living begrudgingly
in London with a fridge and other household equipment shipped over
because the UKian stuff isn't good enough.
Is Canadian whiskey generally rye-based?
Chris McGonnell
>"A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
>cocktail:
>
> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
> shaken up with cracked ice.
>
>It isn't on teh interweb --- has anyone else heard of it?
I'll bet it's a Davies original -- part of his whimsy. Just don't
throw a snowball with a stone inside it in Deptford.
>I think it sounds good, but I haven't seen anything specifically
>labelled as rye whiskey here (in the UK). Would any decent "Canadian
>whiskey" be appropriate?
As long as you're putting maple syrup in it, yes.
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Adam Funk
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:44:40 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>>"A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
>>cocktail:
>>
>> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
>> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
>> shaken up with cracked ice.
>>
>>It isn't on teh interweb --- has anyone else heard of it?
>
> I'll bet it's a Davies original -- part of his whimsy. Just don't
> throw a snowball with a stone inside it in Deptford.
Yes, that could start all sorts of trouble.
I've really enjoyed his novels, but unfortunately I've now read them
all. I may try some of his other writings soon.
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Dave Brown
> "A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
> cocktail:
>
> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
> shaken up with cracked ice.
>
> It isn't on teh interweb --- has anyone else heard of it?
I ain't never heard of no such thing, which is odd because I *am*
a Canuckistanian who enjoys the odd tipple every now and then.
> I think it sounds good, but I haven't seen anything specifically
> labelled as rye whiskey here (in the UK). Would any decent
> "Canadian whiskey" be appropriate?
Yeah, but, uh, be letting us know when you find such a thing as a
'decent "Canadian whiskey"' would you please? About the only
thing that comes to mind is Canadian Club, which is, uh, the Baby
Duck of whiskeys.
--Dave
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Adam Funk
>> I think it sounds good, but I haven't seen anything specifically
>> labelled as rye whiskey here (in the UK). Would any decent
>> "Canadian whiskey" be appropriate?
>
> Yeah, but, uh, be letting us know when you find such a thing as a
> 'decent "Canadian whiskey"' would you please? About the only
> thing that comes to mind is Canadian Club, which is, uh, the Baby
> Duck of whiskeys.
By "decent" I only meant decent enough to mix in a cocktail. Are
Canadian whiskeys all reputedly bad? (I haven't tried one in a long
time.)
Chris McGonnell
>I've really enjoyed his novels, but unfortunately I've now read them
>all. I may try some of his other writings soon.
There's a lot of short stories written about ghosts or murder at
Christmas, which is some sort of Engerlish tradition that I'd never
heard of before I received "Christmas Crimes" as a Christmas present
last Christmas.
delc...@mail.ab.edu
Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2006-07-26, Dave Brown <dagb...@lart.ca> wrote:
>
> >> I think it sounds good, but I haven't seen anything specifically
> >> labelled as rye whiskey here (in the UK). Would any decent
> >> "Canadian whiskey" be appropriate?
> >
> > Yeah, but, uh, be letting us know when you find such a thing as a
> > 'decent "Canadian whiskey"' would you please? About the only
> > thing that comes to mind is Canadian Club, which is, uh, the Baby
> > Duck of whiskeys.
>
> By "decent" I only meant decent enough to mix in a cocktail. Are
No. They are all blends, but some aren't bad.
My Canadian relatives referred to all whiskey as "rye," regardless of
its origin or content.
J. Del Col
Adam Funk
>> By "decent" I only meant decent enough to mix in a cocktail. Are
>> Canadian whiskeys all reputedly bad? ...
>
> No. They are all blends, but some aren't bad.
>
> My Canadian relatives referred to all whiskey as "rye," regardless of
> its origin or content.
That agrees with the impression I got: that in the sections of the
Salterton Trilogy set in Canada the only term used for whiskey was
"rye".
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Francis A. Miniter
>On 2006-07-26, delc...@mail.ab.edu <delc...@mail.ab.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>>>By "decent" I only meant decent enough to mix in a cocktail. Are
>>>Canadian whiskeys all reputedly bad? ...
>>>
>>>
>>No. They are all blends, but some aren't bad.
>>
>>My Canadian relatives referred to all whiskey as "rye," regardless of
>>its origin or content.
>>
>>
>
>That agrees with the impression I got: that in the sections of the
>Salterton Trilogy set in Canada the only term used for whiskey was
>"rye".
>
>
>
Now I am wondering about that line from "American Pie":
So bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.
Whisk(e)y _and_ rye?
By the way, has anyone noticed that the Irish and American spirit
producers tend to use the spelling "whiskey" while the Scots and
Canadian distillers use the spelling "whisky"?
Francis A. Miniter
Otto Bahn
>>That agrees with the impression I got: that in the sections of the
>>Salterton Trilogy set in Canada the only term used for whiskey was
>>"rye".
Canadian rye whiskey, while drinkable, is bullshit. It
might not have had any rye involved at all.
> By the way, has anyone noticed that the Irish and American spirit producers
> tend to use the spelling "whiskey" while the Scots and Canadian distillers use
> the spelling "whisky"?
That Tom Cruise movie "Whisky business" was American.
--oTTo--
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:-)
You had me going there for a minute.
Francis A. Miniter
Kevin S. Wilson
Me, too. Not many people know that Tom Cruise is Canadian. Everyone
just assumes he's from the US.
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Otto Bahn
> :-) You had me going there for a minute.
It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least 51%
rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at all. The
Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is generally all
rye.
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Chris McGonnell
Is that what "Comin' Through the Rye" really symbolizes?
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Adam Funk
>>It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least 51%
>>rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at all. The
>>Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is generally all
>>rye.
>
> Is that what "The Catcher in the Rye" really symbolizes?
IFYPFY.
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Adam Funk
> It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least 51%
> rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at all. The
> Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is generally all
> rye.
Huh? Scotch is made from malted barley, smoked over peat.
Adam Funk
> There's a lot of short stories written about ghosts or murder at
> Christmas,
Ghost of Christmas past?
> which is some sort of Engerlish tradition that I'd never
> heard of before I received "Christmas Crimes" as a Christmas present
> last Christmas.
Hmm. Not sure about Christmas, but murder is as popular in TV
drama now as it was in novels and plays when Shepherd Mead wrote "How
to Live like a Lord".
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TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On 2006-07-27, Otto Bahn <oTTopant...@Blew.Devels.com> wrote:
>
>> It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least 51%
>> rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at all. The
>> Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is generally all
>> rye.
>
> Huh? Scotch is made from malted barley, smoked over peat.
And teh good stuff has a few litres of cough medicine added.
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du.au:
> On 2006-07-29, Adam Funk (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> On 2006-07-27, Otto Bahn
>> <oTTopant...@Blew.Devels.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least
>>> 51% rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at
>>> all. The Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is
>>> generally all rye.
>>
>> Huh? Scotch is made from malted barley, smoked over peat.
>
> And teh good stuff has a few litres of cough medicine
> added.
>
Single malt is an aquired taste, I've been told. I like it,
in small doses. Blended can be good, but I'm not much of a
scotch drinkler to start with, prefering booze I can dump into
a fruity or sour drink mix of some sort. Unless I'm doing
shots. Then I prefer vodka. I don't like cough medicine at
all, unless it has enough good drugs in it that I don't care
what it tastes like after the 1st does.
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Adam Funk
> By the way, has anyone noticed that the Irish and American spirit
> producers tend to use the spelling "whiskey" while the Scots and
> Canadian distillers use the spelling "whisky"?
Kingsley Amis in "On Drink" specifies "bourbon whiskey" in his whiskey
collins recipe, with the note:
For once, you can use rye or Irish whiskey or Scotch whisky* if you
feel like it.
and the footnote:
* Fact for the factually-minded: only Scotch may be legally be spelt
without the 'e'.
Incidentally, his note for the Old-Fashioned reads:
You really have to use bourbon. The Rye Old-Fashioned is not too
bad; the Irish version just tolerable; the Scotch one not worth
while.
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Otto Bahn
>> It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least 51%
>> rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at all. The
>> Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is generally all
>> rye.
>
> Huh? Scotch is made from malted barley, smoked over peat.
I meant Scottish stuff.
--oTTo--
Adam Funk
> I meant Scottish stuff.
Oh, kilt fabric. Yes, that's made from 60% rye, 5% flax, 35% wool.
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Chris McGonnell
>On 2006-07-26, Chris McGonnell <sme...@NOkey-net.net> wrote:
>
>> There's a lot of short stories written about ghosts or murder at
>> Christmas,
>
>Ghost of Christmas past?
Yep. "A Christmas Carol" is one cited as an early tale. It's longer
than it should be because Dickens was being paid by the word.
>> which is some sort of Engerlish tradition that I'd never
>> heard of before I received "Christmas Crimes" as a Christmas present
>> last Christmas.
>
>Hmm. Not sure about Christmas, but murder is as popular in TV
>drama now as it was in novels and plays when Shepherd Mead wrote "How
>to Live like a Lord".
No, mystery or ghost stories set during Christmas, which is some kind
of tradition. Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is
one. Some of Davies' stories were printed in Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine -- December issue, of course.
I think murder on television died with Angela Lansbury.
Otto Bahn
> I think murder on television died with Angela Lansbury.
Law And Order morphed into Law And Sex Crimes which morphed
into CSI which morphed into CSI-[Insert City] which morphed
into Reno-911...
Every generation has its cop show, and every generation has
its CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?! If it weren't for Nickelodeon,
you might be the only who got that reference.
Murder, She Wrote was just a crime against humanity.
--oTTo--
Adam Funk
> Yep. "A Christmas Carol" is one cited as an early tale. It's longer
> than it should be because Dickens was being paid by the word.
Just don't let Dan Brown hear about that scheme. Never mind, it's too
late.
> I think murder on television died with Angela Lansbury.
Without doing any "research" (i.e. googling) I can think of a number
of fairly recent UKian murder drama series: "Foyle's War", "Midsomer
Murders", "A Touch of Frost", "Jonathan Creek" (not always murder).
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No cluons were harmed when "Otto Bahn" <Mark_As...@Markple.com>
wrote:
>Murder, She Wrote was just a crime against humanity.
Especially after Angela Lansbury had the sex-change operation.
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Adam Funk
> Single malt is an aquired taste, I've been told. I like it,
> in small doses.
Hey, so do I! And in large doses sometimes.
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Kevin S. Wilson
<Mark-E...@comcast.net> wrote:
>[snips]
>
>No cluons were harmed when "Otto Bahn" <Mark_As...@Markple.com>
>wrote:
>>Murder, She Wrote was just a crime against humanity.
>
>Especially after Angela Lansbury had the sex-change operation.
>
She did? Which one did she choose?
Chris McGonnell
>[snips]
>
>No cluons were harmed when "Otto Bahn" <Mark_As...@Markple.com>
>wrote:
>>Murder, She Wrote was just a crime against humanity.
>
>Especially after Angela Lansbury had the sex-change operation.
And called her.himself Jerry Orbach.
Dan Krueger
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:50:36 -0000, Mark Edwards
> <Mark-E...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>[snips]
>>
>>No cluons were harmed when "Otto Bahn" <Mark_As...@Markple.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Murder, She Wrote was just a crime against humanity.
>>
>>Especially after Angela Lansbury had the sex-change operation.
>>
>
> She did? Which one did she choose?
>
Hitting the bong with Benny when you wrote that one, pro?
Mark Edwards
[snips]
No cluons were harmed when "Otto Bahn" <Mark_As...@Markple.com>
wrote:
>>>>Murder, She Wrote was just a crime against humanity.
Mark Edwards <Mark-E...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>Especially after Angela Lansbury had the sex-change operation.
Kevin S. Wilson wrote:
>> She did? Which one did she choose?
I believe she chose one of each.
Matthew L. Martin
> [snips]
>
> No cluons were harmed when "Otto Bahn" <Mark_As...@Markple.com>
> wrote:
>
>>>>>Murder, She Wrote was just a crime against humanity.
>
>
>
> Mark Edwards <Mark-E...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>>>Especially after Angela Lansbury had the sex-change operation.
>
>
>
> Kevin S. Wilson wrote:
>
>>>She did? Which one did she choose?
>
>
> I believe she chose one of each.
>
Ah, a no-op, then.
Matthew
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Adam Funk
> It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least 51%
> rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at all. The
> Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is generally all
> rye.
According to McGee _On Food and Cooking_ (second edition), in the
section "American and Canadian Whiskeys":
North American whiskeys are produced mainly from the New World's
indigenous grain, maize.
[...stuff about bourbon, which is made mainly from maize...]
Canadian whiskeys are among the mildest and most delicate of the
spirits made from grains. They are a blend of a light-flavored
column-distilled grain whiskey with small amounts of strongers
whiskeys. They can also include wines, rum, and brandy, up to 9% of
the blend. They're aged a minimum of three years in used oak casks.
Comments?
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Marc Goodman
> They're aged a minimum of three years in used oak casks.
>
> Comments?
Context Away wonders what the oak casks were used for, and
why Dr. Pepper only comes in cans and bottles.
Otto Bahn
>> It's true -- American whiskey has to made from at least 51%
>> rye, while the Canadian stuff may not have any at all. The
>> Scotch stuff, unlike it's mispelled cousin, is generally all
>> rye.
>
> According to McGee _On Food and Cooking_ (second edition), in the
> section "American and Canadian Whiskeys":
>
> North American whiskeys are produced mainly from the New World's
> indigenous grain, maize.
>
> [...stuff about bourbon, which is made mainly from maize...]
>
> Canadian whiskeys are among the mildest and most delicate of the
> spirits made from grains. They are a blend of a light-flavored
> column-distilled grain whiskey with small amounts of strongers
> whiskeys. They can also include wines, rum, and brandy, up to 9% of
> the blend. They're aged a minimum of three years in used oak casks.
>
> Comments?
Wikipedia can NOT be wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky
Well, it can be wrong, but it is self-correcting. Usually.
--oTTo--
David Loftus
Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2006-07-26, Chris McGonnell <sme...@NOkey-net.net> wrote:
>
> > There's a lot of short stories written about ghosts or murder at
> > Christmas,
>
> Ghost of Christmas past?
>
> > which is some sort of Engerlish tradition that I'd never
> > heard of before I received "Christmas Crimes" as a Christmas present
> > last Christmas.
>
> Hmm. Not sure about Christmas, but murder is as popular in TV
> drama now as it was in novels and plays when Shepherd Mead wrote "How
> to Live like a Lord".
Not . . . "How to Die Like the Lord" . . . ?
David Loftus
David Loftus
TeaLady (Mari C.) wrote:
> Single malt is an aquired taste, I've been told. I like it,
> in small doses. Blended can be good, but I'm not much of a
> scotch drinkler
Sort of like being a tippler, yes?
Kevin S. Wilson
<marc.g...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Adam Funk wrote:
>> They're aged a minimum of three years in used oak casks.
>>
>> Comments?
>
>Context Away wonders what the oak casks were used for,
For storing oak, moron. Like, duh!
Adam Funk
> "A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
> cocktail:
>
> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
> shaken up with cracked ice.
I finally remembered this when I spotted some Canadian whiskey in the
supermarket. There were two choices:
* Old Redwood Canadian Spirit --- this looked a bit like some of the
dodgy imitation bourbon products I've occasionally seen in foreign
[i.e., to the US] parts; and
* Canadian Club.
The text doesn't fully specify the ratios (just x:x:2y), so my initial
experiment was with x=y: one jigger of lemon juice, one of maple
syrup, and two of Canadian Club, shaken vigorously with non-cracked
ice (because I don't have a fancy ice crusher and didn't feel like
hammering it).
Not bad, but probably not to everyone's taste. I still can't decide
whether Davies was winding his readers up. I'll try a ratio of 1:1:4
later this week and report back.
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Adam Funk
>> "A Mixture of Frailties" by Robertson Davies mentions the following
>> cocktail:
>> ...the Canadian Lyric, a cocktail made of equal parts of lemion
>> juice and maple syrup, added to a double portion of rye whisky, and
>> shaken up with cracked ice.
...
> The text doesn't fully specify the ratios (just x:x:2y), so my initial
> experiment was with x=y: one jigger of lemon juice, one of maple
> syrup, and two of Canadian Club, shaken vigorously with non-cracked
> ice (because I don't have a fancy ice crusher and didn't feel like
> hammering it).
>
> Not bad, but probably not to everyone's taste. I still can't decide
> whether Davies was winding his readers up. I'll try a ratio of 1:1:4
> later this week and report back.
The 1:1:4 was still so-so. I think RD was trolling.
But I'm working on an interesting variation of Amis's Old-Fashioned
recipe (for which he says "You really have to use bourbon. The Rye
Old-Fashioned is not too bad; the Irish version just tolerable; the
Scotch one not worth while."). (Elsewhere in _On drink_ he recommends
preparing sugar syrup in advance for this and other cocktails, so I
think maple syrup is in order here.)
dashes of Angostura
squeezins of half a clementine/satsuma
maraschino/glacé cherry
2 or 3 tsp maple syrup
"big slug" of Canadian Club
"stir furiously"
3 ice cubes
I've been recently advised that Amis wrote two further books on the
subject, which are now back in print as a compendium!
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