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Cosmopolitan (1927 recipe)

Name: Cosmopolitan (1927 recipe)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 20 ml Scotch whisky; 20 ml Irish whiskey; 20 ml Vodka; 20 ml Swedish Punsch; 10 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 10 ml Dry vermouth

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Ingredients
²⁄₃ fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
²⁄₃ fl oz	Irish whiskey
²⁄₃ fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
²⁄₃ fl oz	Swedish Punsch liqueur
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

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 (1927 recipe) contains 207 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
25.67% alc./vol. (51.34° proof)
25.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino), Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

This, the first "Cosmopolitan" cocktail in print, appears in the "Cocktails Round Town" chapter by Arthur Moss in Harry McElhone's 1927 Barflies and Cocktails.

Casting a glance at the meal-ticket, O. O. McIntyre concocts the "Cosmopolitan:" 1/6 Italian vermouth, 1/6 French vermouth, 1/6 Swedish punch, 1/6 Scotch whisky, 1/6 Irish whisky, 1/6 Russian vodka. And then the case containing the corpse is submitted to the League of Nations.
Arthur Moss, 1927

Cosmopolitan cocktail history and development

Review

A Cosmopolitan in name but not in style. Instead, this Cosmo is perhaps best described as a delicately spiced Old Fashioned. If serving straight-up, as perhaps originally intended, then, depending on your ice, consider adding a splash of chilled water prior to stirring.

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Comments & Discussion

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Paul Nagle-McNaughton 1y

Definitely a cosmopolitan drink with alcohols from Scotland, Ireland, Italy, and Poland (in my case). A global cocktail indeed. Balanced and not as boozy as the ingredients might lead you to believe. I just got a bottle of Flaggpunsch from a friend as a gift and was looking for a good test case. It’s good, but I think I will look for another drink that is more Flaggpunsch forward.

John Hinojos Premium Member 2y

Wow. What a great pre-prohibition cocktail. Strong and Direct. Well balanced with no ingredient overpowering the others.

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