A Modest Proposal Omake: accompanying cocktail recipe

[bob_fish]

Omake: How to Make a Whisky Sour, by Roy Mustang, aged seventeen (recipe courtesy of Iris Futterman-Mustang)

Comments

[havocmangawip]

You my dear are BRILLIANT!

AND YES... blended, NOT single malt.

My father will refuse to serve people Scotch who want it with water or soda. Two fingers, neat, one ice cube.

[bob_fish]

Haha, thanks. Yes, your father and you are quite right. People who want cola with their single malt don't get anything at all (and Madam Christmas will show them the door if she's in a bad mood XD). I even skip the ice cube (but several drops of water are permitted to heighten the flavour).

[havocmangawip]

A splash of water... spring/clean not all chlorinated opens the Scotch up.

Havoc could learn from Roy. I feel that Havoc is a dark beer man. Sometimes wine... if the company is right. But usually beer. :)

[bob_fish]

Still, dark beer=yum!

[bob_fish]

Yes, I can imagine so. Thanks!

[sara_rojo]

Hahaha, it sounds so much like Roy, and yet, cheerful and funny. Oh, God, I love things like this that complement some verse ;-)

[bob_fish]

Hoorah, glad you think it sounds like him. I think this point in his life is, sadly, the peak of "cheerful and funny" for him (unless we're counting larking about with Hughes, and we all know where that went). Have just been writing Ishbal flashbackery and was struck by the fact that he's actually not too many years older than he is here, poor guy.

In other news, partly inspired by the fic and the omake, I just made gin sours for myself and my partner, and I can confirm that the recipe works! I still look like a dork shaking cocktails, though. XD

[sara_rojo]

Mmmm...is that some delicious fic I smell from your comment? Awesome!
Maybe he can have a cheerful and funny future with Ed? :-) Certainly interesting, in any caseXD

I'm always surprised when I remember Roy isn't even 30 yet -I know the contrast to teenager Ed is huge, but the guy is still incredibly responsible. If poor Ed never had/(still doesn't have) the teenagehood he should have, Roy's twentys have been a real bitch. How young do you reckon he entered the military?

I'm one of those stupid people who like their sours with egg whiteXDXDXD

[bob_fish]

It's No Small Injury, Chapter 5.

There's no way a future with Ed could fail to be interesting. XD

He's actually around 32 by No Small Injury, but yeah, in the manga itself I'm always impressed by how early he takes on responsibility - he's a PTSD-ridden Lieutenant Colonel plotting a coup when he's TWENTY FIVE for Godssakes. I get the impression that Riza's definitely no older than eighteen in the scenes where Papa Hawkeye dies, and possibly rather younger - so my guess is Roy probably hit military academy by the time he was nineteen to twenty. There's a definitely parallel with Ed in terms of early responsibility and the loss of their youth, poor kids, which I think they'll both have on their mind in different ways as they get to know each other better.

And I forgive you for the egg white! Especially as you've recommended a delicious new wine which I now discover my local wine shop stocks. I will get back to you when I have tried some.

[cornerofmadness]

hahaha, loved it. Thank you Iris. Your mother was very right to kick that person out. Egg whites? shudders

[bob_fish]

Yeah, I know. I was also amused by the fact that Roy gets a cocktail shaker for his birthday before he's even legal to drink (even by lax European standards).

Egg whites, I know. I'm afraid I've credited Madam Christmas with my own opinions there. The really funny thing is that I made my partner a gin sour the night after I wrote this, and did indeed forget to grab the top of the shaker and then spilled ice down my back. Luckily, she was not in the room at the time to mock me.

[cornerofmadness]

Hahha, it seems appropriate for Roy

Ouch to the mishap. We've all done those sorts of things before. Oh many characters end up sharing my opinions on things. I'm not sure the egg white thing is prevalent here. No one asked me for it when I used to bartend

[bob_fish]

Well, someone on this thread's already admitted to egg white XD. It was much more common in the early twentieth century - although apparently, amaretto sours are supposed to have egg white in. The other funny thing is that looking that up I now see that the American definition of "whisky sour" means bourbon, not Scotch. Ah well - FMA's vague European setting allows me to pretend my accidental Brit references are deliberate local colour (and look, I gave Roy my own fussiness over single malt). I wonder where they make the whisky in the FMA-verse. Somewhere cold and rainy just south of the Briggs mountains, one presumes.

[corposant]

I do love a good whiskey sour, thank you for the recipe! I'll definitely be trying it out.

[bob_fish]

Just remember to hang onto the top so the ice doesn't fly everywhere! I was inspired after writing this to make gin sours for my partner and me and, despite just having made a joke about it in the fic, I still managed to ignore this advice and get ice down my front. SUAVE.

[corposant]

I've definitely had many mishaps with cocktail shakers in the past! Once I spilled an entire cranberry martini down a white dress. Needless to day, I never wore it again. I love the voice you give to young Roy--he's trying to desperately to appear smooth and sophisticated and he almost gets it. He would definitely be laughing at all our cocktail-making messes, but I bet his advice all come from personal experience!

[bob_fish]

Ouch at the cranberry martini!

Manga!Roy keeps a little bit of that dorkiness as a grown-up, despite the coolness. I've always liked that about him. And yeah, I was implying that many of his early attempts at flirtation may have come to grief through his slightly overreaching. XD