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Fanciulli

Name: Fanciulli
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 22.5 ml Bourbon whiskey; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 7.5 ml Fernet liqueur; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
³⁄₄ fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
³⁄₄ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Fanciulli contains 157 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
29.26% alc./vol. (58.52° proof)
22 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe published in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days. 'Fanciulli' is slang for 'boys' in Italian, and in Crockett's book, he suggests that this cocktail could have been named for performers in Puccini's La Fanciulla del West opera and then discounts the theory due to the cocktail predating the opera.

Its appearance in Crockett's book suggests this cocktail originated at the Waldorf, and the hotel's former bar manager Frank Caiafa thinks it was named after Francesco Fanciulli, a band leader and composer who lived in New York City after taking over the US Marine Band in 1892.

FANCIULLI
Certain unmusical memories seem to· recall an Italian opera of that name, but Solon thinks the title was bestowed by some wag who wanted to give "the boys" a new cocktail, and named it after them, as it were, but without their knowing it. That it was not a misprint for "Fanciulla del
West" – Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West" – is rather certain, as its origin considerably antedates the première of that of the opera at the Metropolitan, December 10, 1910. Fanciulli is what they say when they mean "the boys" on the banks of the Tiber; also in the environs of Vesuvius.
One-fourth Fernet Branca
One-fourth Italian Vermuth
One-half Whiskey
Albert Stevens Crockett, Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931

Review

A Manhattan with extra bitters. While challenging for some, others will enjoy it as a delicious digestivo.

Maker's Mark bourbon 375ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
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Fernet Branca 375ml - makes 50 cocktails
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Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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G. M. Genovese Premium Member 8w

Interesting recipe. I used Dad’s Hat rye, Wild Turkey 101, Cocchi di Torino... the menthol is on fire. This could be the base for a dynamic julep, with a skosh of demerara syrup... Hmm....

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