I know you've been wondering what the seasonal release flavor for the Simple Goodness Cocktail Farm Club box is and we're excited to tell you, finally, it's CORN! Yes, we've made a corn syrup. Not like that corn syrup, the ultra processed sweetener with a bad rap sheet, but a corn simple syrup, handcrafted with organic cane sugar and a fresh corn extraction from our own Simple Goodness Farm grown sweet corn. This syrup is incredibly flavorful and if you love corn, you will love this syrup! Belinda has a recipe for the Maize margarita below that wil convince you that more corn needs to be in your nonalcoholic drinks and cocktails. It is completly lovely and it's worth as excited about as that viral corn video a few years back. It's CORN! And it's delicious!
Corn syrup is available only through a Cocktail or Mocktail Farm Club subscription for the month of October, and you must sign up by October 5th for the club in order to get a box. The Cocktail Farm Club is our farm's version of a traditional farm share CSA or like a drink maker's "wine club." With fresh syrups perfect for using in mocktail, cocktails, coffee, and tea sent to your door every release from our seasonal harvests, the Farm Club brings a taste of the Simple Goodness Cocktail Farm to your glass. For our October box, we're proud to present Corn syrup.
To debut this new Corn Syrup flavor, the brain child of our production dream team, farm team member Olivia and farmer Venise, Belinda revealed one of the recipes that will come with the October Cocktail Farm Club subscription, a Maize Margarita. She mixed it up at a recent event for the chef, recipe developer and media guests of the Washington State Beef commission, the Smoke Summit luncheon at Knutson Farms. We were hired to create the drink menu and the results were loud and enthusiastic as folks poured seconds and declared Belinda's Maize Margarita "a top ten cocktail in my drinking life." We highly recommend making a pitcher of these corn margaritas, as we did here to add to a table full of beautiful Washington state brisket smoked by Misty Banchero (@SeattleButchersWife) since one of these cocktails is so good that you're likely to pour another.
Now, as out there as it may sound, we are not the first people to put corn in a cocktail. Corn milk, corn syrup, and corn inflused liqour have been showing up on bar menus in the craft cocktail movement for a few years now, especially bolstered by the recent reciognition that authentic Mexican cusinine is (rightfully) gaining in the food world. The national drink of peru is a corn based sangria drink, Chicha Morada. Corn yogurt and corn ice cream are popular treats in China. In much of the world, sweet corn is celebrated beyond the table, and shows up in both sweet and savory treats.
