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Pisco Sour Day

Peru has a National 'Pisco Sour Day' which is celebrated on 3rd February each year

The first Pisco Sour is attributed to Elliot Stubb, an Englishman who in 1872 opened a bar in the port of Iquique in Peru. He used the 'limon de pica', a small lime grown in the area.

The Peruvian Bartenders Association gives the following official Pisco Sour recipe, for two people:

3oz of Pisco*

1oz lemon juice

1oz sugar syrup

1 albumen (white part of egg)

Place in a cocktail shaker with ice (ice must not melt), but serve without ice.

Variations on this abound, with the use of limes (ideally key limes) instead of lemons, and the addition of bitters, or even a sprinkling of cinnamon.

*Tacama- genuine Peruvian Pisco