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Bottoms Up

Name: Bottoms Up
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Cognac (brandy); 20 ml Orange Curaçao; 5 ml Grenadine syrup; 5 ml Heavy/double cream; 1 fresh Egg yolk

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (10)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/3 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
2/3 fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
1/6 fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
1/6 fl oz	Double cream / heavy cream
1 fresh	Egg yolk

How to make

Glass

Photographed in a Modern America Coupe

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

18.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Double cream / heavy cream — Dairy
Egg yolk — Eggs

History

Adapted from a recipe in Ted Saucier's 1951 Bottom's Up, a cocktail book "with illustrations by Twelve of America's Most Distinguished Artists", one of which was Albert "Al" Dorne, who was "one of the best and highest paid in the field of advertising illustration" of his day. It seems he was also a talented mixologist as the book credits this cocktail to Al Dorne.

Bottoms Up
By Al Dorne
1 jigger Coronet brandy
½ jigger curaçao
1 barspoon grenadine
1 barspoon heavy cream
Yolk 1 egg
Ice
Shake well. Strain into chilled glass.
Ted Saucier, Bottoms Up, 1951

Review

A brandy-laced meal with zesty orange cutting through the heaviness of cream.

Ferrand Dry Curacao 750ml - makes 37 cocktails
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Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$14.99 $0.10 per cocktail Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) image

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Comments & Discussion

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Chris Dimal 3y

What a good drink! I expressed a mandarin twist over the drink and it really cuts through the cream and egg so effectively (echoing the mandarin liqueur I used in place of the Orange Curacao as well). I did bump up the egg yolk and cream, so it may not have been as spirit forward as the recipe seemed to intend.