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

Vowel Cocktail
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Photographed in an Urban Bar 1920 Alto Coupe 18cl

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

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

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:

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

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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 Adapted from a recipe 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

Nutrition:

One serving of Vowel Cocktail contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
18.81% alc./vol. (18.81° proof)
17.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Caspian Berggren

21st May at 19:32

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

4th July 2021 at 22:52

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