Name: Cosmopolitan Cocktail (1934 recipe)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Raspberry syrup; 7.5 ml Chilled water; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/2 fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

1/2 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1/3 fl oz

Raspberry (framboise) sugar syrup

1/4 fl oz

Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)

2 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cosmopolitan Cocktail (1934 recipe) contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.5% alc./vol. (38.99° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from the Cosmopolitan Cocktail recipe in the 1934 Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars.

COSMOPOLITAN
Jigger Gordon's gin
2 Dashes Cointreau
Juice of One Lemon
Teaspoon Raspberry Syrup
Glass No.4 [3½ oz goblet]
Shake and strain.

Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars, 1934

Gallery

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Comments & Discussion

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Stephen Broughall Premium Member 34w

Used Vermont raspberry liqueur in lieu of syrup (a bit less of it than the recipe says). Raspberry flavor can he strong so would balance with bit more of any of the other ingredients, probably the gin. Cointreau can be lost. Nice change from a cosmo or martini.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Reminds me of the raspberry lollies that were my favourite as a child. Not sure of the virtues as a cocktail, but earning big points from me for reminiscence value - thinking of the way that Heston Blumenthal plays with imagination and memory…. I Cut the lemon by half due to available stock.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Subbing some fresh raspberries and sugar syrup (thanks Richard Godwin) is going to take this somewhere special.

Avery Garnett 2y

A completely fine, tasty, but fairly unexciting raspberry gin sour. Even though it has only coincidental relation (probably) to the Cosmo of nowadays, the orange+raspberry+botanicals *do* kind of give you a cranberry vibe...

Felicia Premium Member 3y

The points, as I see it, of this 1934 recipe, are:
1. Gin. Not vodka.
2. Raspberry. Not cranberry.
3. Lemon. Not lime.
1934 is a totally different drink. Similar to say, the history of the Corpse Reviver, different decades and eras in history, made *totally different drinks*. One of the joys of the work Simon Difford has spent many years (17th edition) compiling is the HISTORY of drinks related anything. I understand substitutions, but this is supposed to be a different drink.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

This was outstanding. I find the other Cosmopolitans on the sweet side. This was perfect for me liking more sour drinks. I really like that the flavour of the gins comes through the final cocktail. On my favourites.

Massimo Cremieux 3y

Recipe different from guide. Too lemon juice in recipe book. Probably better site recipe. I ll try

Zach Schwartz 4y

While this isn't one of my personal favorites, it quickly became the most popular request from my home bar for my fiancee and a few of our friends! Lacking raspberry syrup, I use my homemade grenadine instead, so I must confess I haven't tried the original recipe. The grenadine version is also equally good with lime juice instead of lemon.