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Serve in a Coupe glass
2⁄3 oz | Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac |
1⁄3 oz | Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur) |
1⁄6 oz | Rose petal liqueur |
1⁄2 oz | Lemon juice (freshly squeezed) |
1⁄6 oz | Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup) |
1⁄3 oz | Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba or Vegan egg white alternative |
2 oz | Brut champagne/sparkling wine |
Garnish: Express & float coin-sized orange zest twist
SHAKE first 6 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and fine strain into chilled glass. TOP with sparkling wine by pouring in the centre of the cocktail and then cover the hole in the foam left by pouring with garnish.
Recipe contains the following allergens:
It's the dry sparkling wine that has the last word in this beautifully integrated and complex foaming sour.
Adapted from a recipe in William Schmidt's 1892 The Flowing Bowl.
The Evening Sun
William Schmidt, 1892
(For four.)
In a large glass,
The juice of a large lemon,
2 barspoons of powdered sugar,
fill the glass with chopped ice,
space a drink of fine brandy,
a pony of green chartreuse,
½ pony of crême de roses,
the whites of 2 eggs.
Shake this to the freezing-point.
In four glasses divide a pint of dry champagne; strain your ingredients into these four glasses very slowly, and serve.
One serving of Evening Sun contains 154 calories
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