BOURBON IN THE KITCHEN

Bourbon is a handy ingredient for many sweet and savoury recipes. It’s hard to find those intense, bittersweet flavours of oaky spices, vanilla and caramel anywhere else. A small splash adds depth and character to barbecue sauces and glazes, vinaigrettes, chili and tomato soup, as well as ice cream sauces, stewed prunes, pecan pie and sticky toffee pudding. In the Southern states, raw oysters on the half shell are sometimes “cringed” with a teaspoonful of bourbon.