Monday, February 11, 2019

322. Shonnard Cocktail


My interpretation:
  1.75 oz Beefeater Gin
  0.25 oz Noilly Prat Dry
  2 barspoons Vermut Lustau

Fill shaker with broken ice, shake, strain into whisky glass, serve. —This Martini riff (mostly dry—there is not enough sweet vermouth to call it a perfect Martini) served down first appears in JM1910 (AKA Second Edition), p. 75. The call for a whisky glass usually accompanies larger drinks or those served with a piece of ice, since a whisky glass was somewhat like a small juice glass and probably held about 6 ounces, or about twice as much as a cocktail glass, roughly the same as a claret glass though without the stem. It is possible, though unclear, that the drink was larger than 2 oz + dilution. Shonnard is in origin a Scottish surname, and is found both in Shonnard Terrace (the location of a Victorian chateau in Yonkers, New York) and in Civil War Major Frederic Shonnard of the 6th New York heavy artillery, whose daughter, Eugenie, became a proficient sculptor.

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