After buying a bottle of cognac for the French Manhattan, I needed to find some other uses for it. Here is one from @cnh.photo's Instagram feed. I highly recommend it as a Fall or Winter drink. It also has a cool name. I did end up buying the curaçao for this, even though I originally intended to replace that with cointreau or grand mariner. I'm not sure if they'd be interchangeable in this. If I do a test using both side by side I will let you know.
You need to plan ahead a little for this one because the cinnamon needs to steep into the water sugar mixture for a while to make the cinnamon syrup, so you don't want to be making this just before you are planning to put together a cocktail.
The Rational Thought
1 oz VSOP cognac (he used Pierre Ferrand Ambre. I used whatever is on my shelf.)
.5 oz pear brandy (pear eau de vie)
1 oz dry curacao
.75 oz fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon cinnamon simple syrup
1. Put all contents in a shaker with ice. Shake and pour into coupe or Nick & Nora glass.
Cinnamon Simple Syrup
5 oz cane sugar
5 oz water
2 cinnamon sticks broken into pieces
1. Put all ingredients into a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for a few minutes.
2. Remove from heat, cover and let sit for 6 hours.
3. Strain out solids and put liquid into a jar that has a lid. Cover and store in the fridge.
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