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Sundowner

Name: Sundowner
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Grand Marnier; 15 ml Orange juice; 10 ml Lemon juice; 1 dash Orange bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
3/4 fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

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

Nutrition:

One serving of Sundowner contains 166 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
21.45% alc./vol. (42.9° proof)
21.4 grams of pure alcohol

History

Popular with the safari set in South Africa, where it is made with locally produced brandy and an orange liqueur called Van der Hum.

Adapted from a recipe in Lucius Beebe's 1946 The Stork Club Bar Book.

Sundowner:
1½ oz. brandy
¾ oz Van Der Hum liqueur
4 dashes lemon juice
4 dashes orange juice
Shake and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.
Lucius Beebe, The Stork Club Bar Book, 1946

Review

Brandy freshened with orange and lemon. Rich notes are in harmony with sour citrus. Popular with the safari set in South Africa, where it is made with locally produced brandy and an orange liqueur called Van der Hum.

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Red Lion

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

This is one of those cocktails that really does need to be consigned to the dustbin of history, along with the imperial sentiments that it evokes...but mostly because it is just a vulgar, dog's breakfast of a cocktail. Sorry, but it is what it is.