Cocktail of the Week: Whiskey Sour

Tastes good and it wards off scurvy too!

We sometimes joke about imbibing liquor for “medicinal purposes,” but in the case of the Whiskey Sour, there is some truth to the tale.

On the long voyages of sailing ships in the 1700s and 1800s, there was a terrible disease besetting sailors called scurvy. Caused by inadequate vitamin C, it caused lethargy, bleeding gums and painful sores, sometimes le…