Name: Tuxedo Cocktail No.1 (Savoy & Duffy's recipe)
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 Lemon peel; 45 ml Gin; 45 ml Vermouth - Dry; 2 Absinthe verte (green)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Luxardo Maraschino cherry

How to make:

Express lemon zest twist into stirring glass. Add other ingredients, STIR with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 twist	Lemon peel
1 1/2 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
1 1/2 fl oz	Noilly Prat Extra Dry
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
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Review:

Bone dry with faint anise and liquorice notes from the absinthe.

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

Adapted from recipes in The Savoy Cocktail Book (1930) by Harry Craddock, The Official Mixer’s Manual (1934 & 1940) by Patrick Gavin Duffy.

See our Tuxedo cocktail and its many variations page for more Tuxedo recipes and this classic cocktail's full story.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Tuxedo Cocktail No.1 (Savoy & Duffy's recipe) contains 156 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
26.07% alc./vol. (52.14° proof)
23.6 grams of pure alcohol

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