Star

Serve in a

Garnish:

Skewered Luxardo Maraschino cherry

How to make:

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

Review:

Apple notes from calvados combine harmoniously with vinous vermouth with creole-style bitters, this Sweet Manhattan-like cocktail's anchoring ingredient.

Variant:

Marconi
Marconi Wireless
T. N. T. Special

History:

Said to have been created in the 1870s by a bartender at the legendary Manhattan Club, which once stood at the north corner of 34th Street and 5th Avenue, New York City.

Our recipe is adapted from George J. Kappeler's 1895 Modern American Drinks – How to Mix and Serve All Kinds of Cups and Drinks.

Star Cocktail.
Fill a mixing-glass half-full fine ice, add two dashes gum-syrup, three dashes Peychaud or Angostura bitters, one-half jigger apple brandy, half jigger Italian vermouth. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass, twist small piece lemon-peel on top.

George J. Kappeler, Modern American Drinks, 1895

The "Star Cocktail (No. 2)" notably also appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book:

STAR COCKTAIL (No. 2)
½ Italian Vermouth.
½ Applejack or Calvados.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Star contains 180 calories.

Alcohol content:

• 1.5 standard drinks
• 22.79% alc./vol. (45.58° proof)
• 21.3 grams of pure alcohol