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Thursday, February 21, 2019

332. Soul Kiss Cocktail


My interpretation:
  1 oz Dubonnet Rouge
  0.5 oz Bulleit Rye
  0.5 oz Noilly Prat Dry
  0.5 oz fresh orange juice
  1/2 tsp sugar
  
Fill mixing-glass half-full with ice, shake, strain into cocktail glass, top up with soda, serve. — This mixture, named after a musical comedy, first appears in JM 1912 (3rd Edition) and resembles a perfect Manhattan with Dubonnet (originally Byrrh) replacing vermouth, and the addition of sugar, orange, and soda, suggesting a hybrid recipe, unless the fizz water indicates a long drink. Here, however, it seems to add only a slight fizz edge to the final service. A larger cocktail glass seems appropriate. The recipe is also found in Straub 1913 (as “Soul Kiss No. 2”) and in McElhone’s Barflies & Cocktails (1927). The drink by this name in the Waldorf Bar Days is a dry martini shaken with egg white. Of the two recipes by the name in the Savoy book (1930), the no. 2 is more similar, having rye whiskey instead of Italian vermouth (the other ingredients are all shared: Dubonnet, orange juice, and dry vermouth).


Tuesday, October 2, 2018

189. Jack Rose Cocktail

 My interpretation
  1.5 oz Daron calvados
  0.25 oz raspberry syrup
  0.25 oz barspoons lemon juice
  2 barspoons orange juice
  0.25 oz lime juice

Shake with cracked ice, strain, top up with cold soda water, serve. — This famous recipe is presented here in a slightly more involved, but worthwhile, form. As with the Clover Club, Jack calls for a mixture of citruses, which may reflect firs-thand knowledge of recipes used at the Waldorf or similar bars prior to his first publication in JM 1908. Calvados furnishes a drier effect, while Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy provides more fruity apple flavor.


Turning the Page

Greetings! We have come to the end of the Cocktails section from Jack’s Manual (1933). In the process of our study, we have discovered so...