Name: Empire Cocktail
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack; 22.5 ml Apricot (brandy) liqueur; 10 ml Chilled water

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Apricot slice on rim or orange zest twist

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Gin
3/4 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
3/4 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water
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Review:

Apricot fortified by gin and apple brandy. Craddock's 1930 recipe calls for this cocktail to be shaken rather than stirred, indeed it's a cocktail that benefits from a little dilution, hence the addition of water.

History:

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

EMPIRE COCKTAIL.
¼ Apricot Brandy.
¼ Calvados.
½ Gin.
Shake well and strain into chilled glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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Alcohol content:

2 standard drinks
27.64% alc./vol. (55.28° proof)
27.6 grams of pure alcohol

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