Name: Scotch Stone Sour
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Scotch whisky; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 22.5 ml Orange juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Orange bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Scotch Stone Sour
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Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Blended Scotch whisky
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
³⁄₄ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered half orange slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with skewered half orange wheel and cherry sail.

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Scotch whisky-based sour with orange juice, and all the better for it.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Vincent Sardi Jr. & George Shea's 1988 Sardi's Bar Guide.

SCOTCH STONE SOUR
1½ ounces Scotch whiskey
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
¾ ounce lemon juice, preferably freshly squeezed
1½ ounces orange juice, preferably freshly squeezed
½ slice orange or lemon for garnish
1 maraschino cherry for garnish
Combine ingredients with ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into cocktail glass, or empty contents, ice cubes and all, into an Old-Fashioned glass and serve on the rocks. Garnish with ½ slice orange or lemon and a maraschino cherry.
Vincent Sardi & George Shea, Sardi's Bar Guide, 1988

Nutrition:

One serving of Scotch Stone Sour contains 173 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
13.4% alc./vol. (13.4° proof)
14.8 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.