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Bourbon Apple Cider

makes 1 drink

1.5 oz bourbon

3 oz apple cider

2 oz cranberry juice

cinnamon sugar

lemon wedge

ice

1. Rub the rim and insides of a martini glass with the lemon wedge. Pour some cinnamon sugar on a small plate and dip the rim of the glass in it.

2. Mix the bourbon, cider and cranberry juice in a drink shaker with the ice and shake.

3. Pour the drink into the martini glass and enjoy.

Ye Olde Tavern's Vicars and Tarts Party

Saturday, October 22

Menu

Mini chicken and sweet potato croquettes with pear chutney

Crab cakes with roasted corn tomato tarter sauce

Crunchy Thai chicken peanut cakes with chili dipping sauce

Chilled grilled asparagus with lemon tarragon dipping sauce

Potato salad with Champagne mustard vinaigrette and applewood smoked bacon

Assorted petite sandwiches that included:

Turkey breast with lettuce, tomato and cranberry mayonnaise

Roast beef, triple cream brie cheese

with horseradish cream sauce,

red onion, tomato and lettuce

Ham and Havarti with tangy Dijon mustard, lettuce and tomato

Petite maple iced orange cranberry pound cake

Dark chocolate pumpkin brownies

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Egg & Cress Filling

1 small bunch watercress, washed, drained, patted dry
5 hard-cooked eggs, shelled
5 T. mayonnaise
2-1/2 T. Dijon-style mustard
Salt and pepper to taste

Coarsely chop 1/2 of watercress and set aside; you should have about 1/2 cup, lightly packed. Reserve remaining watercress sprigs for garnish. In medium bowl, roughly chop eggs; add mayonnaise and mustard and season with salt and pepper. Mash to a smooth paste. Stir in chopped watercress. Make sandwiches and garnish plate with watercress sprigs.

Concord Grape Cake

• 400 g. flour (farina 00)
• 200 g. granulated sugar + more for sprinkling on top
• 6 large eggs
• 250 ml. sunflower oil (I used extra virgin olive oil.)
• 1 lemon, rind only
• 0.5 g. vanilla powder
• 16 g. baking powder
• about 1 kilo, uva fragolina (concord grapes), seeded if you have the patience

1. Whisk the eggs with the sugar.
2. Add the lemon rind, then the vanilla powder, oil and the flour. Sift from top to bottom.
3. Add the baking powder then the concord grapes. Leave some grapes to put on top of the focaccia.
4. Transfer to a buttered baking dish, square or round.
5. Distribute the remaining grapes on the top of the mixture.
6. Sprinkle with sugar.
7. Bake at 180 degrees Celcius for about 1 hour.