Name: Cameron's Kick
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Whisk(e)y - Scotch whisky (blended); 30 ml Whisk(e)y - Irish blended whiskey; 10 ml Orgeat (almond) syrup (2:1); 15 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 15 ml Pasteurised egg white (optional); 3 Saline solution 4:1

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1 fl oz	The Busker Blended Irish Whiskey
1/3 fl oz	Giffard Orgeat Syrup
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Pasteurised egg white or Aquafaba (chickpea water) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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Review:

Faintly peaty honeyed whisky with a cleansing hint of lemon, rounded by almond. Classically, egg white is not used, but like many sours, the Cameron's Kick is better with egg white.

Variant:

Strained into a Collins glass filled with crushed ice and swizzled.

History:

The Cameron's Kick first appears in Harry MacElhone's 1922 ABC of Mixing Cocktails and is repeated in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

CAMERON'S KICK COCKTAIL.
1/3 Scotch Whisky.
1/3 Irish Whisky.
1/6 Lemon Juice.
1/6 Orgeat Syrup.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.34% alc./vol. (38.68° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

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