Name: Prelude
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Gin; 20 ml Aromatized wine; 5 ml Kummel liqueur; 1 dash Celery bitters; 1 dash Absinthe

Prelude
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
¹⁄₆ oz	Kummel liqueur
1 dash	Fee Brothers Celery bitters
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered Spanish caper.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered Spanish caper.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Celery bitters - Celery

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

With delicate but assertive caraway-led herbal undertones, this is a savoury, Martini-style cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2021 by Susanna McMahon, a keen amateur mixologist and 74-year-old grandmother. She says, "This is a truly savoury drink without any sweetness at all. I think of it as the perfect complement to before dinner treats or pickled treats such as herring."

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Nutrition:

One serving of Prelude contains 131 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
24.76% alc./vol. (24.76° proof)
16.2 grams of pure alcohol

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David Selle

30th September 2024 at 23:29

New drink picture looks great, thanks for fixing it!

Simon Sedgley

30th September 2024 at 12:35

"...without any sweetness at all." We couldn't possibly agree with that. To our taste, the Lillet Blanc stirs up the faintest of elusive zephyrs of sweet. Very appealing.

David Selle

21st July 2024 at 19:38

Unique flavor profile on this drink - it's very well balanced but the cumin notes give it a savoriness I've never experienced in a cocktail before. I think I would favor it as aperitif rather than a digestif as I first tried it. I too am surprised by the color in the photo: all the listed ingredients are colorless or nearly so. Perhaps the cocktail in the photo was made with Lillet Rouge?

Christine Babb

18th July 2024 at 20:45

Nice Martini riff. I am similarly flummoxed by the photograph - my drink looks nothing like that - did you use a Manhattan as the drink's stunt double? :-P

Florian Ruf

22nd July 2022 at 13:12

Delicious cocktail, as I had no celery bitters I used Angostura which worked well. Maybe Grapefruit Bitter could be interesting too. The color of the cocktail in the foto is astonishing, as it has only lightly colored ingredients. Mine was only slightly pale.

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