Name: Bamboo (Savoy's 1930 recipe)
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Sherry - Fino; 22.5 ml Dry vermouth; 22.5 ml Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Toasted almonds

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Fino sherry
3/4 fl oz	Dry vermouth
3/4 fl oz	Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth
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Review:

The simplest, one of the best and dryest renditions of the Bamboo cocktail. It may be simple but the combination of vermouth and fino makes for a fabulously complex cocktail.

Variant:

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History:

Adapted from Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

BAMBOO COCKTAIL.
¼ French Vermouth.
¼ Italian Vermouth.
½ Dry Sherry.
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Bamboo (Savoy's 1930 recipe) contains 90 calories.

Alcohol content:

0.8 standard drinks
12.71% alc./vol. (25.42° proof)
11.4 grams of pure alcohol

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