Snowbirds and Townies

Name: Snowbirds and Townies
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 2 or 3 cinnamon sticks; 1 ½ ounces Fernet Branca; ¾ ounce fresh orange juice; ½ ounce fresh lemon juice; ½ ounce Crème de Cacao, preferably Tempus Fugit; ¼ ounce Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao

By Robert Simonson

Updated December 13, 2022

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Credit...Des Shoe, Catriona Stuart, Deborah Acosta, Will Lloyd and Will Lloyd

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Total Time: About 15 minutes, including 5 minutes' freezing
Rating: 4(6)
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Tonia Guffey, the head bartender at Dram in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said he was inspired to create this holiday drink “by those chocolate oranges you get from your mom for Christmas every year and you kind of hate and love them — the ones with the hard chocolate shell you have to break open.” The bitterness of Fernet Branca is tamed by three sweet holiday flavors: orange, cocoa and cinnamon. As with most of her cocktails, the name is a music reference — in this case, a song about winter by the rock band Further Seems Forever.

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Ingredients

Yield:1 drink

1 cup sugar
2 or 3 cinnamon sticks
1 ½ ounces Fernet Branca
¾ ounce fresh orange juice
½ ounce fresh lemon juice
½ ounce Crème de Cacao, preferably Tempus Fugit
¼ ounce Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao

Ingredient Substitution Guide

Preparation

Step 1
Chill a cocktail coupe by filling with ice or putting in freezer for 5 minutes.
Step 2
While glass chills, make cinnamon syrup: In a small saucepan over low heat, warm the sugar in 1 cup water and add cinnamon sticks, stirring mixture for about 5 minutes. Remove cinnamon sticks. Set mixture aside to cool.
Step 3
In a cocktail shaker, combine Fernet Branca, orange and lemon juice, Crème de Cacao and Curaçao with ½ ounce of the cinnamon syrup (Remaining syrup can be refrigerated for up to a week.) Fill rest of shaker with ice. Shake, then strain mixture into the chilled coupe.