Name: Cablegram
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 22.5 ml Ginger syrup; 15 ml Lime juice; Top up with Soda (club soda) water

Cablegram
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
³⁄₄ oz	Monin Ginger Syrup
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
Top up with	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of crystallised ginger.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda.
Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Whiskey and ginger with a fresh zing of lime.

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History:

The Cablegram first appears in William "Cocktail" Boothby's 1908 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them, where it's described as being "A Bourbon Whiskey and Ginger Ale Highball with a little sour added..." This forgotten classic was given a new lease of life in 2009 by Eric Alperin at The Varnish in Los Angeles, USA with a combination of ginger syrup and soda replacing ginger ale and a rye whiskey base adding a touch more kick.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Cablegram contains 190 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
22.67% alc./vol. (22.67° proof)
22.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Patricia Baker

26th April at 03:11

Since I love ginger, I omitted topping up with soda water - delicious without it!

J W-S

28th December 2020 at 09:32

Very drinkable

Anonymous

14th April 2020 at 23:34

The Cablegram is an old drink. Very old. Eric Alperin had little to do with its creation. It first appeared in William Boothby's World Drinks and How To Mix Them. True, bottled ginger ale was originally used, but it's the same drink with the same name.