Name: Cosmopolitan Cocktail (1934 recipe)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Raspberry syrup; 7.5 ml Chilled water; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Cosmopolitan Cocktail (1934 recipe)
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Raspberry (framboise) sugar syrup
¹⁄₄ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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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.

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Gin Sour with subtle raspberry fruitiness.

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Variant:

Cosmopolitan (Difford's recipe)
Cosmopolitan (Dale DeGroff's recipe)
Cosmopolitan (Toby Cecchini's recipe)

History:

Adapted from the Cosmopolitan Cocktail recipe in the 1934 Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars.

COSMOPOLITAN
Jigger Gordon's gin
2 Dashes Cointreau
Juice of One Lemon
Teaspoon Raspberry Syrup
Glass No.4 [3½ oz goblet]
Shake and strain.
Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars, 1934

Cosmopolitan history and recipe variations

Nutrition:

One serving of Cosmopolitan Cocktail (1934 recipe) contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
19.5% alc./vol. (19.5° proof)
18 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR

8th February at 14:43

Reminds me of the raspberry lollies that were my favourite as a child. Not sure of the virtues as a cocktail, but earning big points from me for reminiscence value - thinking of the way that Heston Blumenthal plays with imagination and memory…. I Cut the lemon by half due to available stock.

John CARR

8th February at 14:48

Subbing some fresh raspberries and sugar syrup (thanks Richard Godwin) is going to take this somewhere special.

Avery Garnett

7th May 2024 at 16:47

A completely fine, tasty, but fairly unexciting raspberry gin sour. Even though it has only coincidental relation (probably) to the Cosmo of nowadays, the orange+raspberry+botanicals *do* kind of give you a cranberry vibe...

Felicia Stratton

14th August 2023 at 20:29

The points, as I see it, of this 1934 recipe, are:
1. Gin. Not vodka.
2. Raspberry. Not cranberry.
3. Lemon. Not lime.
1934 is a totally different drink. Similar to say, the history of the Corpse Reviver, different decades and eras in history, made *totally different drinks*. One of the joys of the work Simon Difford has spent many years (17th edition) compiling is the HISTORY of drinks related anything. I understand substitutions, but this is supposed to be a different drink.

John Hinojos

27th October 2022 at 00:15

This was outstanding. I find the other Cosmopolitans on the sweet side. This was perfect for me liking more sour drinks. I really like that the flavour of the gins comes through the final cocktail. On my favourites.

Massimo Cremieux

19th October 2022 at 19:27

Recipe different from guide. Too lemon juice in recipe book. Probably better site recipe. I ll try

Zach Schwartz

20th January 2022 at 04:42

While this isn't one of my personal favorites, it quickly became the most popular request from my home bar for my fiancee and a few of our friends! Lacking raspberry syrup, I use my homemade grenadine instead, so I must confess I haven't tried the original recipe. The grenadine version is also equally good with lime juice instead of lemon.

Miles Escow

23rd December 2021 at 20:37

This version isn't bad, but has a gin aftertaste that makes it quite distinct from the Difford's Cosmo recipe

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