Name: Margaret Rose
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Calvados apple brandy; 15 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Grenadine syrup

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Libbey Sway 4.5oz

Ingredients:
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1/2 fl oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

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Strength & taste guide:

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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Review:

Depending on your lemon juice, this Sidecar-like Daisy may benefit from an additional 2.5ml sugar syrup to balance.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book where it is credited to "J. W. Fish".
(Our thanks to Jason Clapham of Oxford, England for bringing this recipe to our attention.)

MARGARET ROSE
1/3 Gin.
1/3 Calvados.
1/6 Cointreau.
1/6 Lemon Juice.
Dash Grenadine.
Shake.
William James Tarling, Café Royal Bar Book, 1937

Nutrition:

One serving of Margaret Rose contains 191 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
23.5% alc./vol. (47° proof)
22.3 grams of pure alcohol

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