horse egg

2 oz Cognac (Courvoisier VS)
1 oz Pineapple Juice
3/4 oz Ginger Syrup
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
2 dash Peach Bitters (Fee Brothers)

Shake with ice, strain into a rocks glass, and garnish with a piece of candied ginger.Two Tuesdays ago, I made a batch of ginger syrup, so I looked to the Bartender's Choice app for recipe inspiration. There, the Horse Egg by Zachary Gelnaw-Rubin at Lion Lion in 2018 seemed like a refreshing way to break in the new batch (and with this post, I finally added a "simple syrup (ginger)" hashtag!). As for the curious name, the Vaniquotes site defines it as "Horse egg means it has no substance. As, like there is no existence of horse egg," while Urban Dictionary proffers "A person that does or says stupid things. A situation that is really stupid or extremely obvious." In the glass, the Horse Egg greeted the senses with pineapple, ginger, and Cognac aromas. Next, lemon and pineapple notes on the sip opened up into Cognac, pineapple, and ginger flavors on the swallow with a ginger and peach finish.