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Chicago

Name: Chicago
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 5 ml Orange Curaçao; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 150 ml Brut sparkling wine

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Ingredients
³⁄₄ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
5 fl oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine (chilled)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Flute glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.
RIM glass with sugar (moisten the outside edge with orange juice and dip into sugar).

Method

STIR first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with sparkling wine.

Garnish

No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Chicago contains 173 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
12.72% alc./vol. (25.45° proof)
23 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The Chicago Cocktail first appears in Robert Vermeire's 1922 Cocktails How to Mix Them, and also notably features in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. A Chicago Cocktail also appears in the 1935 first edition of Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide.

Chicago Cocktail.
The Chicago Cocktail is also called "Fancy Brandy Cocktail." It is a plain Brandy Cocktail with a little Champagne on the top, and the squeezed lemon-peel dropped in the glass. Before straining the mixture into the cocktail-glass, moisten the outside borders of the glass with Lemon Juice and dip into pulverised sugar.
Robert Vermeire, Cocktails How to Mix Them, 1922

CHICAGO COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1 Dash Curaçao.
2/3 Brandy.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Frost edge of glass with castor sugar and fill with Champagne.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

CHICAGO COCKTAIL.
2 oz. Old Mr. Boston Five Star Brandy
1 Dash Bitters
¼ Teaspoon Curacao
Stir well with cracked ice and strain into 3 oz. cocktail glass. Frost glass by rubbing slice of lemon around rim and then dip in powdered sugar.
Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide, 42nd print, 1968

Review

A sugar-crusted rim replaces the sugar cube in the classic Champagne Cocktail with extra interest thanks to a splash of orange liqueur.

Variations/similar cocktails

Brandy Crusta

Ferrand Dry Curacao 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$34.99 $0.23 per cocktail Ferrand Dry Curacao image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 301 cocktails
$14.99 $0.05 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
$13.99 $0.04 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

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Makes a minimum of 150.5 cocktails.
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John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Very nice small cocktail. Perfect for an afternoon or early evening. The flavour of the cognac comes through, but there was just something that seem to give it a slight off flavour toward the end. Thinking it is the dry curacao. It is a bitter flavour, but more bitter orange than a spice bitter.

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