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Jersey Lightning

Name: Jersey Lightning
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Calvados apple brandy; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
³⁄₄ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Jersey Lightning contains 191 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
26.8% alc./vol. (53.6° proof)
24.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

JERSEY LIGHTNING.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
¼ Italian Vermouth.
¼ Calvados (Apple Brandy).
½ Brandy.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

More cocktails by Harry Craddock

Review

A brandy and apple brandy-based Sweet Manhattan.

Variations/similar cocktails

Norman Conquest
Corpse Reviver No.1 (Savoy recipe)

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Jacques Gaudin Premium Member 23w

This one benefits from a little wait, it shows better after breathing a bit in my opinion and makes for a pleasant sipper.

Frederic Yarm Premium Member 45w

A Corpse Reviver #1 with bitters?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 45w

Many thanks for pointing out. I've added a link to The Savoy's Corpse Reviver No. 1 above.

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