Modern Cocktail No. 1

Name: Modern Cocktail No. 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Islay Scotch (Peated); 15 ml Sloe Gin; 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice; Absinthe; Orange Bitters

From Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930, where it simply calls for Scotch.

Ingredients

Islay Scotch (Peated)45 ml

Sloe Gin15 ml

Fresh Lemon Juice15 ml

Absinthe

Orange Bitters

Glassware

Coupe glass

Chilled.

Method

1
Combine the Islay Scotch, sloe gin and lemon juice in a shaker.
2
Add a dash of absinthe and a dash of orange bitters.
3
Add ice and shake hard for 10–12 seconds.
4
Fine-strain into a chilled coupe.
5
Serve without garnish.

From the Bartender

From Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930, where it simply calls for Scotch. Made with a blend it is pleasant; made with a peated Islay malt it becomes one of the very few cocktails that gives smoke something worth arguing with. The sloe gin's fruit is the counterweight — do not cut it.

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