Name: Between The Sheets No.2 (brandy + gin + triple sec)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Between The Sheets No.2 (brandy + gin + triple sec)
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
³⁄₄ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
0.08 oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

It may be the Between the Sheets No.3 (with brandy and light rum) that's most identified with this suggestive cocktail's name but as with The Godfather films, it's the first and second Between the Sheets that are perhaps worthy most acclaim.

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Variant:

The modern-day Between The Sheets is light rum and cognac-based, but three versions span this cocktail's history:
No. 1 - dry gin + light white rum + triple sec + lemon juice
No. 2 - brandy + dry gin + triple sec + lemon juice
No. 3 - brandy + light white rum + Triple sec + Lemon juice

History:

In his 1939 The Gentleman's Companion (Volume II), the globetrotting drinks writer, Charles H. Baker, recounts an afternoon escaping "Arab-Jewish riots... in Christianity's own heart city." Baker found respite in the "almost Egyptian-looking sanctum" of the luxurious King David Hotel where he enjoyed a Between the Sheets made by a bartender named Weber and copied the recipe from his bar book.

Weber's Between the Sheets recipe calls for equal parts "cognac, Cointreau, dry gin and lemon juice," and Baker says, "Like the American Side Car, and other truly worthwhile cocktails this invention is totally sound, and is already quite famous throughout the Near East." Tellingly, at the back of his book, where he talks about ingredients, for Cointreau, he says, "it is one of the six favourite liqueurs of the world, but is indicated in several very important cocktails like between the sheets."

Nutrition:

One serving of Between The Sheets No.2 (brandy + gin + triple sec) contains 162 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.86% alc./vol. (25.86° proof)
20.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Tuber Magnatum

11th January at 23:34

Excellent with terrific balance of sweet and sour. The mix of gin and brandy (I used Armagnac de Montal VSOP) blended nicely without either overly predominating. My only comment would be that as much as I am a fan of saline, I only used one drop. I would say that for me that was a good decision as there wasn't really an abundance of sour or bitterness that needed taming and I believe one drop is all that wasI needed to act as a general flavour enhancer.

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