Shliva Sour Recipe
A plum-brandy sour softened with honey and a touch of elderflower; the optional egg white gives it a silky white cap.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 13%
- Difficulty: Medium
Ingredients
- Plum brandy (slivovitz)60 ml (2 oz)
- Fresh lemon juice30 ml (1 oz)
- Honey syrup22.5 ml (0.8 oz)
- Elderflower liqueur7.5 ml (0.3 oz)
- Egg white1 piece
How to Make It
- Add all ingredients to a shaker; if using the egg white, shake first without ice.
- Add ice and shake hard until well chilled.
- Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
- Garnish with a lemon twist.
Garnish
Lemon twist
The Story
The name comes from the Slavic word for plum. It follows the classic sour template, with slivovitz — the dry plum brandy of the Balkans and Central Europe — as the base.
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