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Sunday, April 14, 2019

384. Zazarac Cocktail


My interpretation:
  2 oz McKenna 10 Year Bourbon
  1 dash St. George Absinthe Verte
  1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
  1 dash Angostura bitters
  1 tsp sugar

Take chilled glass from cooler, dip rim in sugar, carefully strain stirred ingredients into glass over large lump ice, serve. — This fairly well-known cousin of the Sazerac, what might be called a Fancy Bourbon Old-Fashioned, yet legitimate in its own right, is described by Jack Grohusko from 1908 onward in the above manner, only that the name is spelt Zazarack until 1933, when the k is dropped. Straub himself effects this change earlier, along with specifying these differences: 1 dash of anisette is added over and above 2 dashes of absinthe, orange bitters are substituted for Peychaud’s, an option of bourbon or rye is given, and a lemon peel is twisted over the glass, nor is a sugar rim called for. Grohusko continues his recipe in 1916 unaffected by Straub’s variant. The Savoy Cocktail Book resembles Straub somewhat, with rum, Canadian club, gum syrup, anisette, angostura, orange bitters, and absinthe; this drink is shaken and strained into a cocktail glass and finished by squeezing over it a lemon peel.
 

Monday, June 11, 2018

76. Champagne Cocktail


My interpretation:
  1 tsp sugar
  2 dashes Angostura bitters
  1/2 split of Gruet champagne 

Place sugar in bottom of champagne flute, saturate with bitters, fill with champagne to 1/4” of lip, dress with lemon twist and 2-3 fresh berries if in season. — Here I include in my preparations the instructions from JM 1908:


 The prescription of “fruits in season” is thus not original to the Champagne Cocktail, but likely adduced from the Champagne Cobbler. Note that the instruction to stir with a spoon is omitted from the later version of the recipe.

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...