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Vowel Cocktail

Name: Vowel Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Scotch whisky; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 10 ml Kummel liqueur; 15 ml Orange juice; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Kummel liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar 1920 Alto Coupe 18cl

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 Vowel Cocktail contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.81% alc./vol. (37.61° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

Adapted from a recipe in the "Cocktails Round Town" appendix of Harry McElhone and Wynn Holcomb's 1927 Barflies and Cocktails. This cocktail's modern-day revival is due to its inclusion in Ted "Dr Cocktail" Haigh's 2009 book Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails.

The anagrammatic Bill Henly just would think up a "Vowel Cocktail:" Angostura bitters, a dash, Eckau kummel, 1/6; Italian vermouth, 1/3; Orange juice, 1/6; Usher's whiskey, 1/3.
Arthur Moss, Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails, 1927

Review

Caraway from the kummel delicately influences this variation on a Blood & Sand.

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Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
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Makes a minimum of 20 cocktails.
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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

The Kummel and OJ was an unlikely, yet pleasant, combination. I found this cocktail really pleasant. I used Monkey Shoulder and that worked surprisingly good. This is a drink I'll try again!

Tom W 5y

The kummel really overpowers the other flavours in the drink. Reading the History paragraph, there may be good reason why this cocktail was forgotten.

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