A recipe from the great Dale DeGroff, in his book 'The Craft of the Cocktail', this is a variation on a whisky sour but
without egg white - Dale (who can be trusted in all things cocktail) insists egg whites are wrong. I quite agree. This consists of (for 2 people): 4 parts blended Scotch ( a good brand, please, we use Grant's Family Reserve), 1.5 parts curacao (i.e. Cointreau), 1 part fresh lemon juice, 1/2 part gomme syrup, and 2.5 parts soda water. These should be stirred in a mixing glass over ice (not shaken) and strained into 2 chilled martini glasses. Serve with an orange twist. Very nice, and deceptively 'quaffable' because of the soda water. Beware, though, it packs a punch!
Thanks for sharing, but in the UK Cointreau is an orange liqueur and Curacao is a blue coloured liqueur!
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1 measure Midori (melon liqueur)
1 measure Noilly Pratt (dry vermouth)
1 measure dry gin
topped up with lemonade served over ice with Angosturas bitters if desired...
Blue Curacao is blue! But the regular Curacao is a colourless orange liqueur, of which Cointreau is a brand name. Thanks for the recipe, what's this cocktail called?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't have a name as it's something a group of us used to put together in the holidays.
ReplyDeleteyou have fun on your holidays, obviously!!!!!
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