Name: Russian
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 20 ml Vodka; 15 ml Crème de cacao liqueur (white); 2 Chocolate bitters; 2 Saline solution

Serve in a

Nick & Nora glass

Garnish:

Coin-sized orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
2/3 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
1/2 fl oz	Dutch Cacao white crème de cacao
2 drop	Bob's Chocolate bitters
2 drop	Difford's Saline Solution (or ½ pinch salt)
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Review:

Gin and vodka with a sweet hint of chocolate.

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

RUSSIAN COCKTAIL.
1/3 Crème de Cacao.
1/3 Dry Gin.
1/3 Vodka.
Shake well, strain into cocktail glass, and tossitoff quickski.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Russian contains 152 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
30.37% alc./vol. (60.74° proof)
19.8 grams of pure alcohol

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