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Autumn Desserts

October 28, 2016

Fall is here! Our Pastry Chef Julie Barnes put together a fabulous lineup of desserts using local ingredients and tasteful ingenuity. Every offering on our dessert menu is made from scratch and a perfect end to a meal at Scarlet Oak Tavern.

Apple Cider Bread Pudding  A staple dessert of the fall and winter months, our bread pudding follows generations of cooking traditions. Our country loaf and brioche bread is mixed together with apple cider custard, apples, and pecans before baked to order. Julie chose local Cortland apples, which best maintain their texture and sweetness when baking. This warm spiced cake is served with a cool scoop of caramel ice cream and drizzled with caramel sauce.

Apple Cider Bread Pudding
Apple Cider Bread Pudding

Double Chocolate Zucchini Cake: This chocolate cake is a knockout this season. Julie incorporated zucchini, from our farm on Gibbet Hill in Groton, MA, which adds moisture to this thick, rick chocolate cake. Chocolate chips are mixed in the cake for extra texture, and it is topped with thick chocolate frosting before finishing with a dollop of whipped cream.

Pumpkin Cheesecake: A rich pumpkin cheesecake makes its debuted on our dessert menu this fall!  It features a cream cheese base mixed with pumpkin and fall spices set on a graham cracker crust. Pumpkin seed brittle adds an extra sweet crunch!  This dish Chef Julie’s personal favorite this season.

Pumpkin cheeseckae
Pumpkin Cheeseckae

Maple Créme Brûlée: A classic custard dessert with a twist! Subtle nuances of maple incorporated with the custard make this crème brûlée a light seasonal specialty. It’s torched to order and topped with candied hazelnuts, which have been set in Frangelico and sugar before roasted and garnished on this dessert.

Cookies & Milk: Sometimes you just have a hankering for cookies and milk… and your calls are answered! Warm chocolate chip cookies, a coconut macaroon, and a chai sugar cookie are warmed to order and served with a cold glass of milk. Kick it up a notch with an Irish Coffee from the bar, and you’ve got the perfect way to tie up an evening.

Autumn Cocktails

October 12, 2016

We’re proud to announce our new cocktail list is in full-swing for the autumn season at Scarlet Oak Tavern. Under the direction and creativity of Beverage Director, Dave Werthman, our new cocktail rollout features some new and unusual concoctions that pay homage to the craft cocktail movement, alongside some old standby’s that our guests absolutely love. We’re taking several new approaches to incorporate ingredients made from scratch that you just won’t find at any other restaurant on the South Shore. Scarlet Oak Tavern is staking its claim in the Golden Age of American bartending thanks to Dave and our talented bar staff.

Scroll down to learn more about some of our lovely libations. We’ll be updating you periodically about the different cocktails available all season long.

We absolutely love the fall season when the oak trees turn Scarlet in Hingham. Getting into the Halloween spirit, we’ve dedicated the local history to the Sleepy Hollow, a beverage featuring a pop of Concord grape and citrus vodka topped with AJ Stephens ginger beer. Concord, MA is the home of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, home to some of the United States’ greatest authors and thinkers on “Author’s Ridge.” We encourage a good transcendental conversation over one of these drinks.

Scarlet Oak Tavern cocktail

“The Vale of Shadows is a dimension that is a dark reflection, or echo, of our world […] it is right next to you, and you do not even see it.” Could this be the Upside Down? You might not think that Don Julio Reposado and Campari could work together, but they make wonderful companions to defeat the Demogorgon (or a hard week’s work at the office). Grapefruit and tamarind give power to the smooth and subtle flavors of reposado tequila. Perhaps your own investigation into this otherworldly cocktail will bring you adventures in Stranger Things…

Scarlet Oak Tavern cocktail upside down

Berkshire Mountain Distillery makes an exceptional Ethereal Gin that we use in our botanical In the Ether cocktail. Italian liqueurs Dimmi and Luxardo Maraschino introduce a candied rhubarb and nutty cherry flavor before a garnish of burnt rosemary. If you hear a crackle and smell the herbal simplicity of rosemary, somebody near you is about to enter the Ether!

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