.5 oz Vodka
2 oz Horchata
In the Food & Wine Cocktails 2012 book I found this recipe for the Caffe Salvatore. Under the White Russian section this take excited me because it used horchata instead of milk or cream. Horchata a sweet rice drink with cinnamon reminds me back to when I just became a vegetarian and made it a few times from a recipe off the post punk kitchen tv show. I had to dig up the old video to try and remember the recipe I used to use. There are a lot of recipes, some use normal milk / whole rice / etc. IDK I liked this one.
Horchata
Ingredients:
4 cups rice milk divided
2 cups water
2 cinnamon sticks
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup ground almonds
1/4 cup rice flour
zest 1 lime
Directions:
Combine 2 cups of rice milk with the water and cinnamon and bring to a low boil. Take off of the heat and add the sugar, ground almonds and rice flour. Let the mixture sit warm on the stove for 2 hours then chill. After the mixture is chilled add the remaining 2 cups of rice milk. Remove cinnamon sticks and strain the mixture.
The smell off the drink is light with a slight hint of vodka and almonds. The taste is cool with sugar and rice followed by the herbal hit of Averna. The drink ends with lime / Averna. One person on sampling it said it tasted like 'a vodka version of eggnog'. When I mentioned it came from the White Russian section they said it makes sense. It is surprising how well an amaro stands in for coffee liquor in this drink. I liked the cool refreshing taste of horchata.
The horchata I made was a little light on cinnamon flavor so I threw an extra pinch of cinnamon into the drink and it became more exotic and less 'oh, a slightly different white russian' tasting. I prefer it with the extra cinnamon and that's how I'll make the drink but it does change the drink so I'd recommend trying the unaltered one first.
I also do not know how important the 1/2 oz of vodka is in this drink. The second time I made it I left out the vodka and didn't notice a big difference in flavor.
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