Name: Deansgate
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 22.5 ml Honey herbal liqueur; 15 ml Lime cordial; 7.5 ml Lime juice

Deansgate
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Honey herbal liqueur (e.g. Drambuie)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed) omit if using wet ice

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

How to make:

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

Garnish:

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

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Rum and herbal honey liqueur enhance each other, with lime adding flavour, freshness and balance.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book Coronation Edition.

DEANSGATE
Invented by J. E. (Ted) Player
½ Daiquiri Rum.
¼ Rose's Lime Juice.
¼ Drambuie.
Mix in bar glass., squeeze orange peel on top.
William J. Tarling, Café Royal Cocktail Book Coronation Edition, 19337

A cocktail called "Dean's Gate" made with 60ml vodka, 30ml Drambuie, 30ml lime cordial, and 30ml chilled previously occupied this page and existed on our database from the late 1990s and appeared in the first edition of our book.

Nutrition:

One serving of Deansgate contains 176 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
22.06% alc./vol. (44.12° proof)
21.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Carolyn Rush

8th March at 00:26

Used Myer's rum. Didn't have Drambuie, so substituted homemade Lithuanian Krupnikas, which is pretty sweet, so skipped the lime cordial.

Probably a completely different drink, but really, really good!!!

Steven Jepson

6th March at 23:01

I could have sworn I had a bottle of Drambuie but evidently not.
So A bottle of Grand Marnier and a teaspoon of honey had to substitute.

Definitely going to have to add a bottle of Drambuie and retry this .

Murray Henson

18th February at 16:08

According to Café Royal Cocktail Book Coronation Edition (1937), this should be made with rum, rather than vodka. Also, the name is supposed to be all one word "Deansgate".

Simon Difford

18th February at 16:45

Thanks, Murry. The vodka-based recipe and accompanying image are from the late-1990s and I suspect I found it on a London bar's cocktail list. Whoever created this version must have read the Café Royal but used vodka - the go-to spirit in the 90s. I'll make, update and re-photograph with rum.

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