Name: Bobby Burns (Craddock's recipe)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Scotch whisky; 45 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 7.5 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.

Bobby Burns (Craddock's recipe)
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₄ oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist expressed and discarded. Adorn with skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry..
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Rich and slightly sweet, laced with spice liqueur - an excellent dram to enjoy alongside the ritualistic serving of haggis.

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Variant:

Bobby Burns (Crockett's 1931 recipe)
Bobby Burns (Embury's 1948 recipe)
Bobby Burns (Difford's recipe)

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book which calls for equal parts rosso vermouth and scotch whisky with three dashes of Bénédictine. Craddock adds that this is "One of the very best Whisky Cocktails and "A very fast mover on Saint Andrew's Day."

BOBBY BURNS COCKTAIL.*
½ Italian Vermouth.
½ Scotch Whisky.
3 Dashes Bénédictine.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
*One of the very best Whisky Cocktails. A very fast mover on Saint Andrews Day.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Bobby Burns (Craddock's recipe) contains 194 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
22.77% alc./vol. (22.77° proof)
22.2 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR

25th January at 14:44

Easy to make and easy to drink. Simple, rich and delicious. I went with Glenfiddich and carpano but the variations are, of course, endless. A timeless classic.

Peter McCarthy

18th March 2024 at 03:39

Not really sure which "blended scotch" to use in cocktails yet, so just used Johnnie Walker Black. The herbal notes with the scotch are interesting. I could see how this would pair well with something like haggis!

Ben S

10th March 2024 at 00:01

A barspoon of heavily peated whisky helps add a little more depth to this classic.

Olga María Gómez Henderson

21st January 2024 at 13:36

Is this the correct photo? In the recipe, it says that the garnish is a lemon zest twist, but in the photo is a maraschino cherry.

Simon Difford

22nd January 2024 at 09:44

Thanks for pointing this out. I've corrected to say that the zest should be expressed and discarded before garnishing with the skewered cherry.

Anonymous

27th January 2022 at 01:53

Very nice cocktail even with out the short bread. The Benedictine adds another flavourful layer to the cocktail.

Fernando Yu

26th January 2022 at 16:36

Wow.. Fantastic Scotch cocktail.. The Benedictine enhances the cocktail rather than dominates, unlike Drambuie.

John Hinojos

26th January 2022 at 01:12

This was the last of the 4 for us to try. We had it on Burn's Night as our aperitif before the Haggis. We had also made a load of fresh shortbread, so we had the garnish. All 4 are outstanding.