Fernet and Coke

Drinking French

After watching Alton Brown make this on an episode of Quarantine Kitchen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHLL2mppC3k), my husband picked up some Mexican Coke to go with the Fernet Branca we already had for a previous recipe (the Toronto, here: https://youtu.be/B0Q7zV96hGI) so we could make it ourselves! In the book, David Lebovitz says that in France they often use a different Fernet (Fernet Vallet), but I haven't been able to get that one here.

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[00:00]: [Music]
[00:05]: hello
[00:06]: and welcome to cooking the books with
[00:07]: heather today we're going to do a really
[00:09]: quick
[00:09]: drink recipe out of
[00:13]: david levi this is drinking french um
[00:16]: since we had the fernet bronco that my
[00:18]: sister kindly brought to
[00:20]: us um and we saw i think it was alton
[00:23]: brown
[00:24]: and his wife making this this week on
[00:28]: their channel
[00:29]: um we decided we'd go ahead and try it
[00:32]: so we are going to be making fernet and
[00:34]: coke
[00:35]: now in the book he generally uses fernet
[00:38]: valet which is what they usually use
[00:40]: in france um there are there's a wide
[00:43]: range
[00:44]: of fernettes available uh it's basically
[00:47]: a particular type
[00:49]: of amaro um this one
[00:52]: branca is apparently more menthol a
[00:54]: little more minty
[00:55]: than some especially than the fournette
[00:57]: valet but
[00:58]: we're using what we can find and this is
[01:01]: what alton brown used in his
[01:03]: so we're gonna just mix it up
[01:06]: and try it so
[01:09]: the first ingredient is just the
[01:11]: fernette
[01:12]: and i'm going to make two you know for
[01:14]: my cameraman back there
[01:18]: one for me one for him
[01:21]: so we've got that
[01:25]: and then for this recipe
[01:28]: um one bottle of this
[01:32]: that is very mental and not very sweet
[01:36]: um we've got some mexican coke
[01:39]: which is uh made with real sugar
[01:42]: which you know we kind of prefer it's
[01:44]: more the traditional
[01:46]: coke um and actually fernet valet
[01:50]: was originally made by a mexican who
[01:53]: came to france i think
[01:54]: so you know maybe a little more true to
[01:57]: the original
[01:58]: i don't know if the coke that they get
[02:01]: in france is also made with
[02:03]: sugar i just don't know i hadn't thought
[02:05]: about that
[02:07]: so we've got this and we're going to use
[02:09]: almost
[02:10]: all of this but not quite according to
[02:13]: this recipe but you can
[02:15]: um make this to your liking so
[02:19]: he says to taste it and then if you
[02:22]: would like a little more coke or a
[02:23]: little more fernette
[02:24]: you know feel free to
[02:28]: all right we're gonna go with that and
[02:30]: that will be
[02:31]: approximately what his recipe is and so
[02:34]: i'm going to stir it
[02:36]: a little bit just to make sure it's
[02:39]: mixed
[02:42]: and then i'm going to go get some ice
[02:46]: i think i'm going to do like a large
[02:48]: cube of ice
[02:50]: i think what do you think so yeah i
[02:53]: think i'm gonna go get a large cube of
[02:54]: ice
[02:55]: actually
[02:58]: that is very minty all right i'm gonna
[03:00]: get some ice our coke wasn't
[03:02]: fully chilled so we definitely need ice
[03:04]: in this
[03:06]: so we prefer these uh cubes these large
[03:10]: cubes of ice as opposed to the spheres
[03:13]: it's just more difficult to get
[03:15]: the spheres to like be filled up and not
[03:17]: spill and
[03:19]: get them out so we go with the large
[03:21]: cubes be right back
[03:23]: and the only other thing for this recipe
[03:25]: is to garnish with some
[03:27]: fresh lemon i'm gonna go with
[03:31]: one little lemon wedge
[03:34]: for each of these glasses and that is it
[03:36]: and let's give it a taste
[03:43]: now it's it's good it is definitely has
[03:45]: a very menthol
[03:47]: feel in your mouth which i don't i don't
[03:50]: remember from the previous drink we used
[03:52]: the fernet in but i mean i could be
[03:54]: wrong
[03:56]: i might go a little heavy on coke in
[03:58]: this one because the fernet
[03:59]: is a bit bitter and we are not super
[04:02]: fans of the bitter flavor
[04:04]: but yeah it's pretty good and it's a
[04:06]: very simple cocktail that you can
[04:07]: just sort of mix together and if you
[04:10]: have the frenette
[04:12]: it's pretty easy so if you liked
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