Garnish:
Dust with freshly grated nutmeg
How to make:
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.
1 1/2 fl oz | Ketel One Vodka |
3/4 fl oz | Dutch Cacao white crème de cacao |
3/4 fl oz | Single cream / half-and-half |
3/4 fl oz | Milk (whole milk/full 3-4% fat) |
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Review:
Creamy and delicately flavoured. The nutmeg garnish plays as important a role as the cacao liqueur.
Variant:
History:
Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.
BARBARA
Stanley M. Jones, 1977
Cocktail Glass
Shake
1-1/2 oz vodka
3/4 oz creme de cacao, light
1-1/2 oz cream
Nutrition:
One serving of Barbara contains 220 calories.
Alcohol content:
- 1.3 standard drinks
- 16.77% alc./vol. (33.54° proof)
- 18.9 grams of pure alcohol
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