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Vodka Cocktail

Name: Vodka Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Vodka; 25 ml Cherry brandy; 15 ml Lemon juice; 4 drop Abbott's bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Cherry (brandy) liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
4 drop	Bob's Abbotts bitters
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 skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Vodka Cocktail contains 220 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
22.05% alc./vol. (44.1° proof)
23.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Crosby Gaige's 1944 Standard Cocktail Guide.

VODKA COCKTAIL
1 jigger Vodka
¾ ounce Cherry Brandy
Juice of ½ Lemon
Shake with cracked ice.
Crosby Gaige, Standard Cocktail Guide, 1944

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Review

A lemon cherry vodka sour with added complexity thanks to the judicious use of bitters.

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 4w

Vodka doesn't appear to be prominent in 'Sour' recipes so we were curious to try this. For us it was delightfully subtle and balanced with just a nice complexity from the bitters. An elegant Sour.

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