Cosmopolitan (1927 recipe)

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UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
  2. Prepare orange zest for garnish.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
  5. Express orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
Ingredients:
2/3 fl oz Blended Scotch whisky
2/3 fl oz The Busker Blended 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
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

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.

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

Nutrition:

One serving of Cosmopolitan (1927 recipe) contains 203 calories.

Alcohol content:

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