Pisco Sour Recipe

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How To Make A Pisco Sour

While both Chile and Peru claim a deep attachment to the Pisco Sour, it is clear that this delicious drink was first invented in the 1920s in Lima Peru -- ironically by an American bartender.


Ingredients In The Pisco Sour:

  • 2 oz Pisco
  • 1 oz Lime
  • 3/4 oz Gum Arabic syrup, can be substituted with Simple Syrup
  • 1 egg white (optional)

Pisco Sour Directions:

  1. Combine all ingredients in shaker tin.
  2. Add a few chips of ice.
  3. Shake until ice chips are dissolved.
  4. Fill tin with ice.
  5. Shake vigorously, until tin is frosted over.
  6. Strain into chilled cocktail glass
  7. Garnish with Angostura Bitters and enjoy.
Pisco Sour
Yield: 1 Cocktail Credit: Published: 2016-04-14

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