Name: Harrovian
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Old Tom gin; 5 ml Orange juice; 1.25 ml Lemon juice; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Harrovian
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
¹⁄₆ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and quarter orange slice wheel.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with quarter orange slice on rim.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This cocktail screams for richness, hence my choice of old tom gin instead of the dry gin in the 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book recipe.

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Variant:

Harrow School rival Eton and its Old Etonian Cocktail.

History:

Harrovians are former pupils of England's Harrow School and include Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin, Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Robert Peel. The Harrovian is a weekly newspaper published by the school since 1828.

The Harrovian Cocktail appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Harrovian Cocktail.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1 Teaspoon Orange Juice.
1 Dash Lemon Juice.
1 Glass Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Harrovian contains 127 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
27.6% alc./vol. (27.6° proof)
18.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Toby James

27th December 2024 at 23:27

Simon/Paloma, just to flag: while you specify Old Tom in the text, the recipe gives London Dry.

Simon Difford

28th December 2024 at 07:35

Many thanks for bringing to our attention, Toby. Now corrected to old tom.

Calvin Grant

9th November 2024 at 03:38

Decent and dry and, frankly, well balanced. I used Beefeater and as Simon says , this cocktail screams for richness. Would have used old tom had I had it. Maybe even genever.