Garnish:
Orange zest twist
How to make:
STIR 4 flat barspoons marmalade with other ingredients in base of shaker to dissolve the marmalade. SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.
| 4 barspoon | Orange marmalade |
| 2 fl oz | Gin |
| 1/6 fl oz | Strucchi Red Bitter Liqueur |
| 1/2 fl oz | Lemon juice (freshly squeezed) |
| 1/4 fl oz | Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix) |
| 1 dash | Orange Bitters by Angostura |
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Review:
The addition of bitter liqueur and aromatic bitters to the classic 1930 recipe from The Savoy Cocktail Book, lifts the Marmalade Cocktail to a new level of bittersweet complexity.
Variant:
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Breakfast Gimlet - with orange marmalade, dry gin, lime cordial and lemon juice.
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History:
Adapted from a recipe discovered in 2013 at Hawksmoor in Spitalfields, London, England. Huw Gott, Hawksmoor's co-founder, says the cocktail went on the menu soon after the restaurant and bar opened in 2006.
Alcohol content:
- 1.4 standard drinks
- 22.72% alc./vol. (45.44° proof)
- 20 grams of pure alcohol
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