Name: Dream Cocktail
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 20 ml Orange Curaçao liqueur; 1 Absinthe verte (green); 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' 2 sugar to 1 water (optional); 15 ml Pasteurised egg white (or aquafaba) (optional)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Rémy Martin 1738 Cognac
2/3 fl oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1/12 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°brix) (optional)
1/2 fl oz	Pasteurised egg white (or aquafaba) (optional)
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Rémy Martin 1738 Cognac, 70cl

£ 53.25 £ 3.44 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Pierre Ferrand Orange Curaçao, 70cl

£ 31.95 £ 0.93 per cocktail, makes 34.5 La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 49.25 £ 0.14 per cocktail, makes 350

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Review:

An after-dinner cocktail with brandy, orange liqueur, and a refreshing burst of absinthe.

Variant:

Netherland Cocktail.

History:

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

DREAM COCKTAIL.
1/3 Curaçao.
2/3 Brandy.
1 Dash Absinthe.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Dream Cocktail contains 190 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
25.53% alc./vol. (51.06° proof)
21.1 grams of pure alcohol

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