Name: Cordova Cocktail
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 1 Absinthe verte (green); 30 ml Single cream / half-and-half

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

None

How to make:

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.

1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1 fl oz	Single cream / half-and-half
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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.

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

Nutrition:

One serving of Cordova Cocktail contains 172 calories.

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
15.51% alc./vol. (31.02° proof)
14 grams of pure alcohol

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