Name: Dandy Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Bourbon whiskey; 45 ml Rouge aromatised wine; 5 ml Triple sec; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Dandy Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Bourbon whiskey
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine
¹⁄₆ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare lemon and orange zest for garnish.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lemon and orange zest twists over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This complex Manhattan variant is a well-balanced combo of spirit, liqueur and aromatic wine.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

DANDY COCKTAIL.
½ Rye or Canadian Club Whisky.
½ Dubonnet.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
3 Dashes Cointreau.
1 Piece Lemon Peel.
1 Piece Orange Peel.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Dandy Cocktail contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
24% alc./vol. (24° proof)
22.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Anna Thompson

13th April at 19:00

Really enjoyed this. Don’t always keep Dubonnet in the cocktail cabinet but welcome when we do. My husband went rogue and made this with Johnnie Walker Black Label which might be unorthodox but is, if anything, more delicious.