Name: Quebec City (a brandy-based Toronto)
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 52.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 7.5 ml Fernet liqueur; 7.5 ml Maple syrup; 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters; 10 ml Chilled water

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist (discarded) & skewered Luxardo Maraschino cherry

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 3/4 fl oz	Rémy Martin 1738 Cognac
1/4 fl oz	Fernet liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Maple syrup
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water
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Review:

Fernet-washed brandy rounded with maple syrup and deepened with a dash of aromatic bitters.

History:

A Toronto Cocktail based on brandy rather than whiskey, as is the norm today. Brandy is used in preference to whiskey for this cocktail in Robert Vermeire's 1922 Cocktails - How to Mix Them. The name, and indeed trying brandy as the base, is thanks to a comment by Michael N. on our Toronto cocktail page in February 2022.

Fernet Cocktail
Fill the bar glass half full of broken ice and add:
1 dash of Angostura Bitters
2 dashes of plain Sugar or Gum Syrup.
¼ gill of Fernet Branca.
¼ gill of Cognac Brandy, or Rye Whisky to taste.
Stir up well with a spoon, strain into a cocktail-glass, and squeeze lemon-peel on top.
This cocktail is much appreciated by the Canadians of Toronto.
Robert Vermeire, 1922

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Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
26.29% alc./vol. (52.58° proof)
20.5 grams of pure alcohol

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