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Nick & Nora

Name: Nick and Nora
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Dry vermouth

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1/2 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered green olives.

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with skewered olives.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Nick & Nora contains 117 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
27.87% alc./vol. (55.75° proof)
16.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Created in circa 1934 and named after Nick and Nora Charles, the flirtatious married couple at the centre of Dashiell Hammett's 1933 The Thin Man story serialised in Redbook Magazine. Published as Prohibition was ending, Nick is a hard-drinking retired detective and his wife Nora a wealthy heiress, both embrace cocktail culture. The Thin Man was published as a novel in 1934 and then a series of movies.

In the novel, Nick and Nora shake their Martinis and Nick tells a bartender, "The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a Dry Martini you always shake to waltz time." Hence, some insist a Nick and Nora Martini should be shaken rather than stirred.

In the movie, the detective duo drink from what has become known as a Nick & Nora glass so this has become the default for this scaled-down to fit Dry Martini.

Review

A classic Three-to-One Dry Martini served in bijou proportions.

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Comments & Discussion

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John CARR Premium Member 1y

Bearing in mind Herr Kraft’s admonition below, I shook my Nick & Nora, and she was all the better for it. A 3:1 shaken martini with some delicious olives, what’s not to like, as the young people say? The shaking does add to the vibrancy and dynamism of the drink. Go on, I dare you 😉.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

With the limited ingredients, it is critical that you use the best quality you can afford. It is also advisable to have your ingredients super cold (freezer). The cocktail is very flavourful with bursts of herbal tastes.

Jakob Kraft 3y

I must contradict the instructions on this one because, regardless of one's preferences for their own Martinis, if you're going to make a Nick & Nora: "Always have rhythm in your shaking...a dry martini, you always shake to waltz-time."