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The Crow

Name: The Crow
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Scotch whisky; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Grenadine syrup; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of The Crow contains 131 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
18.89% alc./vol. (37.79° proof)
14.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

The Crow cocktails first appears in Judge Jr.'s 1927 Here's How! Revised Edition and is repeated in Harry Craddock's influential 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

The Crow
This drink is guaranteed to make you fly; like the crow, if you fly too far you will get shot!
⅔ Scotch;
⅓ lemon juice;
A dash of grenadine.
Judge Jr., Here's How! Revised Edition, 1927

THE CROW COCKTAIL.
⅓ Whisky.
⅔ Lemon Juice.
1 Dash Grenadine.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Review

If you use quality pomegranate syrup and have a penchant for Scotch, then you could be pleasantly surprised by this cocktail.

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Comments & Discussion

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Bill Lennox 2y

Pleasant, but basic. Exactly what you would expect from the three ingredients. Not an example of "greater than the sum of its parts" . Needs top quality ingredients. I used Glen Grant 10, and home made grenadine.

Russell Robardey 3y

In lieu o pomegranate syrup or grenadine what are the thoughts on pomegranate molasses. I have used this in many recipes for my Kitchen … but reading up on things to do with scotch (my liquor or preference) i saw this and thought man molasses has some notes and tones that could really make this cocktail a banging good treat?