This bourbon cocktail isn’t technically a Southern classic, but it drinks so much like one. The cocktail was actually created at a modern speakeasy in New York City called Milk & Honey, but every time I serve it at an event in the South, people absolutely love it.

Ingredients

For the Turbinado Syrup:

　　1 cup water

For the cocktail:

　　¾ oz. Turbinado Syrup

　　½ oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice

　　¼ oz. Crystal hot sauce

　　3 dashes Worcestershire sauce

　　Garnish: 1 chile de arbol

　　To make the cocktail: Fill a rocks glass with crushed ice. Pour the bourbon, syrup, lemon juice, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce into a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with ice cubes. Cover and shake vigorously 20 times. Strain into the glass. Place the straw in the glass. To garnish, place the chile on the ice.

　　From Julep: Southern Cocktails Refashioned by Alba Huerta, copyright © 2018. Photography by Julie Soefer. Published by Lorena Jones Books, an imprint of Penguin Random HouseBuy the full book from Amazon or Bookshop.