Creme de violette
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Crème de Violette, also known as liqueur de violette, is a generic term for a usually French liqueur with natural and/or artificial violet flower flavoring and coloring with either a brandy base, a neutral spirit base, or a combination of the two. It can be used as a substitute for the no longer available Creme Yvette. [1]
One well-regarded brand is Benoit Serres Liqueur de Violette. However, it is reportedly very difficult to obtain even in France.[2] Benoit Liqueur de Violette is made with a neutral spirit base with a smaller portion of Armagnac added to it.[3]
After crème de violette had been all but unavailable in the United States for decades, in mid-2007 Haus Alpenz began importing Rothman & Winter Crème de Violette from Austria.[4]
The rarity of Crème de Violette appeared as a plot element in an episode of The Avengers entitled "Two's A Crowd".[citation needed]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Haigh, Ted (aka "Dr. Cocktail"), Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails. Quarry Books, 2004, page 74.
- ^ The Internet Cocktail Database, "Creme de Violette" ingredient listing. http://www.cocktaildb.com/ingr_detail?id=132
- ^ The Internet Cocktail Database, "Creme de Violette" ingredient listing. http://www.cocktaildb.com/ingr_detail?id=132
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle (online edition) Friday, September 28, 2007. The Cocktailian: Creme de violette lifts Aviation to the moon, by Gary Regan. [1] (Accessed 8/17/2008)
[edit] References
- Clarke, Paul (2007). Imbibe Magazine: Gone but not Forgotten. Imbibe Magazine. ISSN 1557-7082.
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