Fine and Dandy

#cocktail #gin #triple-sec

Description

A Gin Sour sweetened with orange liqueur. Harry Craddock's original 1930 recipe calls for 1 part lemon, 1 part triple sec, and 2 parts gin. Depending on your lemons, this tends to produce an overly sour cocktail, hence I've reduced the citrus and added a touch of sugar.

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. FINE AND DANDY COCKTAIL. ¼ Lemon Juice. ¼ Cointreau. ½ Plymouth Gin. 1 Dash Angostura Bitters. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Ingredients

45 ml Hayman's London Dry Gin
22.5 ml L'Original Combier Triple Sec Liqueur
15 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
5 ml Monin Pure Cane sugar syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2 sugar to 1 water) (optional)
1 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters

Method

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish

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