Gomme or gum syrup is simple syrup with the addition of gum acacia. You’ll find food-quality gum acacia on Amazon It creates an amazing mouthfeel and transforms your Old-fashioned into something amazing.
This equal-parts variant created in the late 2010s, stems from the Prohibition-era Last Word and even more directly from Sam Ross’ Paper Plane invented a few years earlier. The key difference here is the introduction of a spicy Ancho Reyes liqour.
This drink’s name comes from a classic baked Purim treat recalling the 3-cornered hat worn by Haman. A hamantaschen is a jelly-filled pastry, and here we use sweet jelly to bring balance to this gin sour. Inspired by Sasha Petraske’s Cosmonaut.
