Estate Sale Finds - Elder Road #1 ~ The Flying Biscuit and Vodka!

The Flying Biscuit Cafe Cookbook, published in  2007. All recipes are customer favorites from the Flying Biscuit Cafe located in Atlanta, Georgia. The Flying Biscuit opened in 1993 and was an immediate hit, making the Top Ten of Atlanta restaurants in it's first year of operation. Today there are two locations and each store makes an average of 5,000 biscuits per week.

Most of the recipes are breakfast dishes with many variations of biscuits, egg dishes, pancakes and grits. There are also light entrées including pasta, fish & seafood, vegetarian options, salads and desserts.

Viva Vodka, published in 2006.  Similar to the Viva Margarita book profiled in an earlier entry, this book was also published by the El Paso Chile Company and contains 95 recipes. The books opens with a bit of information on the various distillations of vodka and mentions Vodka was first sold in the Untied States in 1939 by Smirnoff.  

The first chapter is Classics with recipes for vintage drinks including a Bloody Mary, screwdriver and Black Russian. The Moscow Mule is also featured and is described as a promotional drink from the early 1940's concocted to encourage drinkers in the United States to try the newly imported spirit.

Other chapter titles are Cold War drinks with many reflecting James Bond movie themes, Shooters - including one for Windex made with Curacao, Modern Classics (Cosmopolitan), Summer Coolers (Melon Balls & Mango Madras), Martinis, After Dinner selections and Exotic drinks - a Lychee Nut martini.

There is a chapter on infusions (an age old practice in Russia and other countries) with recipes for clove, green apple, coconut and coffee options. The last chapter deals with various rims techniques for both salt and sugar.