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Parkeroo

Name: Parkeroo
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Blanco tequila; 30 ml Fino sherry; 30 ml Oloroso sherry; 2.5 ml Agave syrup; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Blanco tequila
1 fl oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
1 fl oz	Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño Sherry
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Agave syrup (agave nectar)
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Plain Retro Coupette 15cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Parkeroo contains 133 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
19.14% alc./vol. (38.29° proof)
17.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry, Oloroso sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The Parkeroo, named for American film and television actor Willard Parker (1912-1966), first appears as the only tequila-based cocktail in Lucius Beebe's 1946 The Stork Club Bar Book.

Among the more exotic of the restorative category is a sort of bastard Martini evolved by Willard Parker with all the ingredients cockeyed as well as the consumer:

Parkeroo:
2 oz. dry sherry
1 oz. tequila
twist of lemon peel.
Pour this concoction over shaved ice, allow to chill and then pour into pre-chilled champagne coup glass.

"While painting a picket fence around my house," deposes Mr. Parker, "I discovered that after two Parkeroos I could remain stationary and let the fence revolve around the brush. This will give you an idea!"
Lucius Beebe, The Stork Club Bar Book, 1946

Review

Splitting between two styles of sherry (fino and oloroso) builds complexity in this tequila-laced aperitivo. Half a spoon of agave syrup helps balance while also amplifying flavours, but this remains a dry cocktail.

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Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
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Tres Agaves Organic Agave Nectar 375ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$9.99 $0.07 per cocktail

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Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Jacques Gaudin Premium Member 49w

This is a subtle drink where the two sherries have a great opportunity to reveal their respective character. Expressing the lemon twist is quite crucial, I'd recommend not skipping this step.

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