Buttercup

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (13 ratings)

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz Oude genever
34 oz Giffard Caramel Toffee liqueur
34 oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of the original recipe calls for a lemon zest twist but the lemon oils overpower the butterscotch. So if you use a slither of lemon skin on which to nestle a Werther's Original, don't express the lemon's oils over the drink. WARNING: Don't be tempted to use buttercup flowers as they are poisonous. They are also poisonous when eaten by livestock but their acrid taste and the blistering of the mouth they cause mean that animals don't tend to eat them. Interestingly, the toxins degrade when dried, so hay containing dried buttercups is safe for animals to eat..
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 8/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 5/10
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Review:

When made to Lucas Bols original specification: 1 shot Bols Genever, 1 shot Bols Butterscotch liqueur and ¾ shot sweet vermouth, this drink has a great flavour but lacks balls (or perhaps I should say Bols). Hence, the above formula is heavy on the genever with equal parts butterscotch liqueur and sweet vermouth. It's even better with an oude genever rather than a jonge as this amplifies the butterscotch notes.

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History:

My adaptation of a recipe I discovered in January 2014 at The House of Bols in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Nutrition:

One serving of Buttercup contains 206 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.8 standard drinks
  • 23.73% alc./vol. (23.73° proof)
  • 24.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Herbert Brant’s Avatar Herbert Brant
15th March 2023 at 22:32
Wonderful cocktail! I'll admit that I wasn't sure about the mix of rosso vermouth with the genever and the stroopwafel, but it works beautifully. This is a delight!
Kevin Duffy’s Avatar Kevin Duffy
25th March 2022 at 16:26
This is a very nice but not overly sweet cocktail. Definitely a crowd pleaser and simple to make.