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

Houla Houla Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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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.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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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.

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Variant:

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

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

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Nutrition:

One serving of Houla Houla Cocktail contains 162 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
20.04% alc./vol. (20.04° proof)
18.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Nikolaus Linder

24th December 2024 at 11:41

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

Chris Dimal

14th August 2023 at 13:34

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

8th November 2022 at 01:14

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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