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Doctor No. 1

Name: Doctor No. 1
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Swedish Punsch; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 10 ml Chilled water; 4 drop Daiquiri bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Swedish Punsch liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix (optional)
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)
4 drop	Difford's Daiquiri Bitters (optional)
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 lime zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Doctor No. 1 contains 161 calories

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
11.77% alc./vol. (23.55° proof)
12.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

A recipe for a Doctor Cocktail made with Swedish punch and lime juice first appears in Hugo R. Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for Mixed Drinks (2nd Edition) (It may have also appeared in his 1916 first edition.)

DOCTOR COCKTAIL
1 jigger Cederlund's Punch
Juice 1 lime
Shake well in a mixing glass with cracked ice, strain into cocktail glass and serve very cold.
Hugo R. Ensslin, Recipes for Mixed Drinks, 1917

The Doctor cocktail, comprising Swedish punch and lime juice, also features in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Bar Book and The UKGB's Approved Cocktails, published the same year and to which he also contributed.

Doctor
2/3 Swedish Punch.
1/3 Lemon or fresh Lime Juice.
Shake and strain into cocktail glass.
W. J. Tarling, Café Royal Cocktail Book Coronation Edition, 1946

Review

Lime combines well with the aromatic spices in Swedish punch.

Variations/similar cocktails

Doctor - equal parts light rum and Swedish punch with a barspoon of both lemon and orange juice.
In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David A. Embury says, "There are numerous recipes for this drink. Here are several. Shake well with cracked ice.
Doctor No. 1 Equal parts of lime juice and Swedish Punch.
Doctor No. 2 Equal parts of lemon juice, Swedish Punch, and gin. This is also known as the Greta Garbo.
Doctor No. 3 One part lemon juice, 1 part orange juice, 2 parts Swedish Punch.
Doctor No. 4 One part lime juice, 2 parts Jamaican rum, 3 parts Swedish Punch."

Comments & Discussion

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Ant Hern 4 years ago

This is also the ratio specified in The Savoy Cocktail Book (Doctor Cocktail), with a choice of lemon or lime. Swedish Punsch is definitely my favourite new (to me) discovery of the last 12 months. Delicious stuff!