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Harrovian

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

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

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and quarter orange slice wheel.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with quarter orange slice on rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Harrovian contains 127 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
27.6% alc./vol. (55.21° proof)
19.7 grams of pure alcohol

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

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.

Variations/similar cocktails

Harrow School rival Eton and its Old Etonian Cocktail.

Hayman's Old Tom Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$31.99 $2.56 per cocktail Hayman's Old Tom Gin image

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
$13.99 $0.04 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

$2.60 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Toby James Premium Member 1y

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

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

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

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

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.

Alexandros Bousoulegkas 1y

Interesting cocktail, I think it is better with a couple of Angostura bitters dashes

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