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Cordova Cocktail

Name: Cordova Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 1 dash Absinthe; 30 ml Whipping cream

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1 fl oz	Whipping cream

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. To prevent curdling, add the cream to the shaker after the ice and immediately before shaking.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cordova Cocktail contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
14.14% alc./vol. (28.29° proof)
13.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Whipping cream — Dairy

History

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

CORDOVA COCKTAIL.
2/3 Dry Gin.
1 Dash Absinthe.
1 Teaspoon Fresh Cream.
1/3 Italian Vermouth.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Review

One of the worst cocktails in Harry Cradock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. If you follow Craddock's recipe then this cocktail is more appropriately named the 'Curdled Cream Sweet Martini'. Reducing the gin and upping the cream (as per the recipe above) helps prevent curdling and produces a more palatable, if still not great, cocktail.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$33.99 $1.36 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 640 cocktails
$17.99 $0.03 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

$1.39 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Ricci Valldejuli 2y

I bit the bullet and tried it. I could have gotten a similar result from scooping my bath water.

adrian lord 3y

I just made the Savoy version from the book are use the Bohemian La fee. The result was thin.

Sean Baron 4y

Imagine a very thin custard that tastes of aniseed. It’s not bad, but I could do without the lingering aniseed taste afterwards.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

I've adapted Craddock's recipe but it's a cocktail that's beyond redemption. That is unless I'm missing something?

Jason Gregory 1w

Add an ostrich egg

Vera Lycaon 5y

If booze weren't as expensive as it was, I'd try this once just to see how horrible it truly is.

Mark Shah 5y

I really want to try this to see how bad it is but at the same time I don't want to waste my valuable booze!