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Whiskey Daisy No.2

Name: Whiskey Daisy No.2
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Bourbon whiskey; 15 ml Grand Marnier; 15 ml Honey and water syrup; 20 ml Lemon juice; 30 ml Soda water

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
²⁄₃ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Goblet glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a GOBLET GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon and orange zest twists.

Method

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.
TOP with a splash of soda.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange and lemon zests over cocktail and then use both to garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Whiskey Daisy No.2 contains 189 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
15.44% alc./vol. (30.88° proof)
20.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Recipe adapted from Harry Johnson's 1888 Harry Johnson's New & Improved Bartender's Manual which also has an illustration of this cocktail (Plate No. 10) served in a stemmed wine glass filled with crushed ice.

WHISKEY DAISY.
(Use a large bar glass.)
½ table-spoonful of sugar;
2 or 3 dashes of Lemon juice;
1 dash of Lime juice;
1 squirt of Syphon Selters, dissolve with the
lemon and lime juice;
¾ of the glass filled with fine shaved ice;
1 wine glass of good Whiskey;
Fill the glass with shaved ice·
½ pony glass Chartreuse (yellow);
stir up well with a spoon, then take a fancy glass have it dressed with fruit and strain the mixture into it, and serve.
This drink is very palatable and will taste good to most anybody.
Harry Johnson, Harry Johnson's New & Improved Bartender's Manual, 1888

More cocktails by Harry Johnson

Review

Light, fresh and fruity. Perfect for a summer's afternoon.

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Chris Dimal 1y

Really tasty drink, though this doesn't correspond to the daisy in the history section whatsoever. Honestly, the latter could be having a page of its own.

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