A cracker or a small, thin piece of bread or toast spread with cheese, meat, or relish and served as an appetizer. [French, from canapÃ©, couch, from Medieval Latin canÄpÄum, mosquito net; see canopy.]
Pickle brine is a traditional Polish hangover remedy as well, say the Strybels: Fill a glass with equal parts chilled pickle brine and ice-cold club soda, and drink the mixture down at once.
Tuck in the strips of orange zest. Make your brine: Bring the orange juice, bourbon, vinegar, sugar, salt, allspice, cloves, and red chili flakes to a boil in a small saucepan. Open the vanilla bean pieces and scrape the seeds. Remove the liquid from the heat, add the vanilla seeds, and drop in the pod pieces.