Name: Damn-the Weather
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 15 ml Orange Curaçao liqueur; 30 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 45 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed); 1 Orange bitters

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in an

UB Retro Coupe Gold 7.75oz

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
1/2 fl oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
1 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet vermouth
1 1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
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Rutte Dry Gin, 70cl

£ 33.95 £ 1.48 per cocktail, makes 23 Pierre Ferrand Orange Curaçao, 70cl

£ 30.75 £ 0.66 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Martini Rosso sweet vermouth, 75cl

£ 10.25 £ 0.41 per cocktail, makes 25

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Review:

Gin and herbal vermouth with zippy zesty orange.

History:

This cocktail emerged during Prohibition in America and its modern-day notoriety is mostly due to its inclusion in Harry Craddock's influential 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book with the following recipe:

"Damn-The-Weather Cocktail
3 Dashes Curaçao.
¼ Orange Juice.
¼ Italian Vermouth.
½ Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

Nutrition:

One serving of Damn-the Weather contains 162 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
15.74% alc./vol. (31.48° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

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