The Nellie Kuh

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon very finely chopped crystallized ginger
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• Lime wedge (for glass)
• 2 ½ oz. rye whiskey
• 1 oz. fresh lime juice
• ½ oz. Ginger Syrup (click for recipe)
• ¼ teaspoon orange-flower water

Steps

1. Combine ginger and sugar on a small plate, rubbing together with your fingers to combine (should be sandy; this will help the ginger stick to rim. Rub the rim of a coupe glass with lime wedge and dip rim into ginger mixture to coat. Combine whiskey, lime juice, ginger syrup and orange blossom water in a cocktail shaker; fill shaker with ice and shake until outside of shaker is frosty, about 30 seconds. Strain into prepared glass.