A violet crush Recipe on Food52 (2024)

Thanks, Zahirah. I am going to have to find some violet candies to try! They sound so interesting.

It was these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Howard's_Violet_candies. There was also gum. They are so perfumed, you can tell they're violet flavored before you even open the wrapper.

Thanks!

You are the best, hla! I love how you make so many recipes and report back. I may make the aviator with pomegr. liqueur instead of the maraschino, next time I make drinks!

This is good news, and I hope I didn't put anyone off. It's enough of a shame that some of my family's unlikely to give them another go, but that will leave more for me! It's great to be wrong.

Greenstuff, you didn't put anybody off. I just wonder if the glasses had a soapy residue on them per chance. And I learned that my drink is less original than I first thought, but I hope it will be a new, happy discovery.

Thanks, checker! (;

Thanks for posting your note. I should not be surprised to learn that you could get violet kirs in France! Since I have learned that you can make your own liqueur from violets and there are over 23 co*cktail ideas you can find online. So I guess I am hardly inventing the wheel with the kir idea here (even though I had hoped that I had). This idea was new to me. Rothman and Winter from Austria bottled the kind I found in NY; it does not taste at all soapy to me. I do remember gagging once when a British numismatic colleague served me tea in cups that had way too much dish detergent residue. Wonder if it could have been the glassware? Though when I worked as a beer maid in Germany, it was customary to wash out the glasses in plain water.

Thanks, Liz. I am thinking of a whole picnic basket to accompany this, since the contest seems more food-oriented...it will probably include figs wrapped in proscuitto, a baguette, herbed goat cheese, and pickled asparagus...but have to give it more of a think.

Thanks, Midge. Yes, I intend to test this out this weekend with a proseco and update the variation. TiggyBee and hardlikearmour have both helped me think up the name. I think I will keep violet in there since it gets at both the taste and color.

Thanks, nogaga. I hadn't thought of the Amherst College purple connection...we also have Amethyst Brook running very near to Emily's home here!

There's the perfect name there: Amethyst Crush!!

Thanks, wssmom. Since I think of you as the queen of drinks, that is a lovely compliment!

Thanks, mrslarkin. I hadn't thought of it that way before!

Oh gosh, I don't know what those candies taste like. But violet liqueur tastes like concentrated very sweet violets, which on its own is too overpowering to me. I think I would also like it mixed with a dry champagne, too. Another day.

Thanks, SKK. If you like the Kir, you will probably like this variation.

Thanks, TiggyBee. I have been hunting for a good name. Hope you don't mind if I adopt your suggestion. The only hard part of this drink is having the liqueur on hand.

Thanks. It really has an lovely amethyst jewel color and subtle violet flavor. Let me know what you think if you make this. I wasn't sure how else to begin using this liqueur, but this idea worked out really well for me.

My absolute favorite, if I could only have one co*cktail for the rest of my life, best ever drink uses creme de violette. It's the Aviation co*cktail, and I highly recommend you give it a try!

Thanks. Having completed a certain number of hours in flying lessons, I will assuredly have to try that drink out!