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Godmother

Name: Godmother
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Vodka; 25 ml Amaretto liqueur

Difford’s Guide

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Ingredients
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Adriatico Amaretto Liqueur

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB 1910 Old Fashioned 10.5oz

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Godmother contains 203 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
28.35% alc./vol. (56.69° proof)
21.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

This 1970s cocktail is a vodka-based sibling of the better-known Scotch whisky-based Godfather. Both cocktails, along with the similar brandy-based French Connection, appear in Brian F. Rea's 1976 Brian's Booze Guide.

Godmother
Build in an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes
1½ ounces Vodka
1 ounce Amaretto
Brian F. Rea, Brian's Booze Guide, 1976

All three cocktails also appear in Stanley M. Jones' Jones' Complete Barguide, published the following year.

(The) GODMOTHER
Old Fashioned Glass
Build
1 oz Vodka
1 oz Amaretto
Fill with ice
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

Review

Almond-flavoured vodka served over ice. Hard not to like but lacks depth of flavour.

Variations/similar cocktails

Godfather (Scotch whisky and amaretto); Godchild (brandy and amaretto); The Boss (bourbon and amaretto)

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Comments & Discussion

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Mateusz Smoleń 1y

It's quite good but little bit plain. Neutral vodka brings the best of amaretto and dilutes sweetness. Try it with dash or two of absinthe, thou it's not Godmother anymore, maybe Fairy Godmother.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 3y

Actually not too bad. Used Ketel One and a trash amaretto. It does a good job attenuating the saccharine slop of a low-grade liqueur. (2 Jun 2023, 4:17a)