Name: East India House
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 10 ml Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years; 10 ml Orange Curaçao liqueur; 7.5 ml Pineapple juice; 2.5 ml Pineapple syrup; 1 Orange bitters

Serve in a

Nick & Nora glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
1/3 fl oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
1/3 fl oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Pineapple juice
1/12 fl oz	Pineapple sugar syrup
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
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Review:

Dry and challenging - rewarding for some.

Variant:

East India No. 2

History:

A variation of Harry Johnson's East India Cocktail, Johnson could have also created this in the 19th century. However (as far as I'm aware), a recipe titled East India House doesn't appear in print until Charles H. Baker Jr.'s 1939 The Gentleman's Companion, and this is close to what other vintage books call an East India No. 2 (without the rum in the recipe above).

THE EAST INDIA HOUSE COCKTAIL, being one for any man's book, & garnered in the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, India, 1932, while the-then-fiancée sight-saw across India to Delhi, Agra, Benares & Fatehpur Sikri, & Calcutta.

Take 1½ jiggers of cognac, 1 tsp pineapple syrup – the soda fountain kind – and put in a shaker. Add 2/3 tsp maraschino, 1 tsp orange Curaçao, 3 dashes of orange or Angostura bitters, according to preference. Shake with lots of fine ice and strain into a Manhattan glass, twisting a bit of lime peel on at the last.
Charles H. Baker Jr., The Gentleman's Companion, 1939

Charles H. Baker Jr.'s East India House recipe translates as:
45ml (1½oz) Cognac
5ml (1/6oz) Orange Curaçao
5ml (1/6oz) Pineapple syrup
3.75ml (1/8oz) Maraschino liqueur
3 dashes Orange bitters

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Nutrition:

One serving of East India House contains 174 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.47% alc./vol. (50.94° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

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