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Crazy Crossing

Name: Crazy Crossing
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 22.5 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh; 2.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 2.5 ml Mandarin liqueur

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
3/4 fl oz	Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina
1/12 fl oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1/12 fl oz	Mandarin liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

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

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Crazy Crossing contains 166 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
22.57% alc./vol. (45.14° proof)
21.5 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 William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book where the invention of this cocktail is credited to "F. G. Hunt". We've used a mandarin liqueur, but the original recipe calls for Van Der Hum tangerine liqueur. The original recipe is also shaken rather than stirred.

CRAZY CROSSING
Invented by F. G. Hunt
1/2 Plymouth Gin (Coates).
1/4 Noilly Prat Vermouth.
1/4 Dubonnet.
Dash Maraschino.
Dash Van der Hum.
Shake.
W. J. Tarling, Café Royal Cocktail Book, 1937

(Our thanks to Jason Clapham of Oxford, England for bringing this recipe to our attention and suggesting the use of Mandarine Napoléon.)

Review

Bittersweet with herbal botanical complexity.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$67.99 $4.12 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Dubonnet Red 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$15.99 $0.48 per cocktail Dubonnet Red image

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur 375ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$32.99 $0.22 per cocktail Luxardo Maraschino liqueur image

$4.82 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 15w

We were disappointed with this. A Negroni variant that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 30w

Another excellent cocktail utilizing Byrrh and Dry Curaçao. Finally found a vendor in Seattle carrying Mandarine Napoléon Liqueur. Can't wait to try it!

Calvin Grant Premium Member 30w

Disappointing. Turns out BevMo's website doesn't mention NOT AVAILABLE at the specific store, the inventory of which I thought I was searching. Reminds me of why I deleted my account with them some years ago. Hi Ho.

Adam Elboim 5y

Fantastic cocktail. I've also used orange curacao for a more bitter taste.

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