Chicago Fizz

Serve in a

Photographed in a

Garnish:

Quarter lemon wheel on rim

How to make:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and slowly pour 2/3rds of the contents of the shaker from a higher than normal height into a chilled empty glass (no ice in glass) while simultaneously pouring soda with your other hand. The cocktail and soda should form a single stream of liquid falling into the glass.

As when pouring a Guinness, to achieve a perfect head on a fizz, the cocktail should be left to settle for at least a minute before topping off with what remains in the shaker. Ideally, during the settling period, the glass should be placed in a glass froster/fridge/freezer. As the final contents of the shaker are poured into the glass so the head should rise like a souffle.

Hazardous ingredients

Egg white is potentially hazardous to those with allergy or intolerance.

Review:

Rum character shines, distinguishing this from lesser fizzes.

History:

In his 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days book, Albert Stevens Crockett says that at New York's pre-Prohibition Waldorf-Astoria bar, this classic was "an importation from the Windy City", hence its name. Since Prohibition, it has been somewhat forgotten.

CHICAGO FIZZ
An importation from the Windy City long before bombs, machine guns and sawed-off shotguns had come to disturb its peaceful life.
(lemonade)
Juice one-fourth Lemon
One-half spoon Sugar
White of one Egg
One-half jigger Jamaica Rum
One-half jigger Port Wine
Shake; strain; fill from siphon

Albert Stevens Crockett, Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931

Alcohol content:

• 1 standard drinks
• 11.39% alc./vol. (22.78° proof)
• 14.5 grams of pure alcohol