rhymes with orange

4 cL Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao (1 1/3 oz)
2 cL Fernet Branca (2/3 oz)
1.5 cL Pierre Ferrand 1840 Cognac (1/2 oz Courvoisier VS)
1.5 cL Lemon Juice (1/2 oz)
1.5 cL Egg White (1 Egg White)
1 dash Bob's Cardamon Bitters (The Bitter Housewife)

Shake one round without ice and one round with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with ice, and garnish with a lemon twist.Two Saturdays ago, I was perusing Maison Ferrand's 2014 Parisian Cocktail Book when I spotted the oddball Rhymes with Orange by Michael Mas at the Experimental Cocktail Club in Paris. Curaçao and Fernet Branca have worked well together in drinks like the All Hands on Deck, Alligator, Don't Give Up the Ship, and Heather in Queue, so I was curious to see what it could do in this liqueur-forward egg white Sour that was skewed like the Mission of Burma to have orange liqueur as the principle ingredient. Once mixed, the Rhymes with Orange quizzed the nose with orange, lemon, and herbal aromas. Next, a creamy orange and lemon sip opened up into a world of orange, gentian bitter, minty, and menthol flavors on the swallow.