The Homeward Angel

Name: The Homeward Angel
Yield: serves 1
Ingredients: 2 ounces rye whiskey; 1/2 ounce sweet vermouth; 1/4 ounce orange bitters; A splash of cherry pickling liquid (recipe follows); 2 Pickled Sour Cherries (recipe follows); 1 1/4 cups rice vinegar; 1 small slice of fresh ginger; 15 black peppercorns; 1 1/4 cups sugar; 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt; 4 cups pitted fresh sour cherries (about 1 pound); (makes 1 quart)

December 9, 2011

This variation on a Manhattan was created by longtime Lantern bar goddess Kristen Johnson and christened by Lantern lexicographer Phil Morrison. When naming his first novel, Thomas Wolfe is said to have been inspired by an engraving of a John Milton poem on a stone statue of an angel in a cemetery in Hendersonville, North Carolina, not too far from Levering Orchard: Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth.

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