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Houla Houla Cocktail

Name: Houla Houla Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Orange juice; 15 ml Orange Curaçao; 2 dash Orange bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
3 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 Houla Houla Cocktail contains 162 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
20.04% alc./vol. (40.07° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book but was first published in Robert Vermeire's 1922 Cocktails How to Mix Them and in other books spelt Hoola-Hoola or even Hula Hula. For the full story see Hula Hula, Houla Houla or Hoola-Hoola.

HOULA-HOULA COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Curaçao.
⅓ Orange Juice.
⅔ Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

More cocktails by Harry Craddock

Review

Orange generously laced with gin. Our previous version of this recipe called for just 20ml (⅔oz) orange juice, but I've come to realise this cocktail is better with a touch more juice.

Variations/similar cocktails

Surprisingly, this cocktail is better in its equal parts Hula Hula, Houla Houla or Hoola-Hoola guise.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.06 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Ferrand Dry Curacao 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$34.99 $0.70 per cocktail Ferrand Dry Curacao image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

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Comments & Discussion

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Nikolaus Linder Premium Member 1y

Found it in Munkepunke's Cocktail- und Bowlenbuch (A.R. Meyer 1929) 9. 22.

Chris Dimal 3y

I used 3 day old squeezed orange juice in the fridge because I needed to get rid of it, and it was really meh. The Orange Curacao adjunct did a lot of heavy lifting for palate of this drink.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Really liked this cocktail, and I find the flavours exactly as I would expect from a vintage cocktail. Even with our tree ripened oranges, the cocktail was not sweet. It has a wonderful bitter flavour with the oranges and herbal of the gin. Great for a aperitif.

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