Name: So So Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Calvados apple brandy; 5 ml Grenadine syrup

So So Cocktail
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₂ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of float (dehydrated) apple slice.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This beautifully balanced, delicately herbal cocktail is so much more than just so-so.

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History:

The "So So Cocktail" appears in Harry MacElhone's's 1923 Harry of Ciro's ABC Of Mixing Cocktails where he credits this drink to "Mr P. Soso, the popular manager of Kit-Kat Club, London."

So So Cocktail.
1/6 Grenadine,
1/6 Calvados,
1/3 Cinzano Vermouth,
1/3 Gin.
(Invented by Mr, P. Soso, the popular manager of Ciro's Club, London.
Harry MacElhone, 1923

MacElhone's recipe is repeated verbatim in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book but with MacElhone's stipulation for "Cinzano Vermouth" becoming non-brand specific "Italian vermouth".

SO-SO COCKTAIL.
1/6 Grenadine.
1/6 Calvados.
1/3 Italian Vermouth.
1/3 Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of So So Cocktail contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
22.8% alc./vol. (22.8° proof)
18.2 grams of pure alcohol

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