Happy Friday! Here’s a NOLA cocktail with a story, and you don’t see the story or the cocktail mentioned much anymore. The drink tastes like a fried pie with lemon filling. It’s called the Mourning Pie.
Hubig’s have been making fried pies in New Orleans since 1921, and they were always an important part of the community. They were hit pretty hard by Hurricane Katrina, but rebuilt. Then in 2012, their factory had a 5-alarm fire and burned to the ground. People throughout the city wanted to help, and their was a fundraiser. Chris Hannah, at Arnaud’s French 75, created this drink for the fundraising event.
There were other setbacks along the way, including of course a global pandemic, but they reopened in November 2022, 10 years after the fire and their first shipment of pies sold out in an hour.
From the fundraising link:
1 oz. Plymouth Gin
3/4 oz. pineapple juice
1/2 oz. limoncello
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1/3 oz. creme de cacao
I swapped out the Plymouth Gin for Seagram’s Extra Dry because I’m not a gin person and probably couldn’t appreciate the difference when mixed with all the rest. It’s a tasty cocktail, and like most NOLA drinks it goes down a bit too smooth! 
