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Scotch Stone Sour

Name: Scotch Stone Sour
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Scotch whisky; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 22.5 ml Orange juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Orange bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered half orange slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with half orange slice wheel and cherry sail.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Scotch Stone Sour contains 173 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
13.4% alc./vol. (26.79° proof)
15.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Vincent Sardi Jr. & George Shea's 1988 Sardi's Bar Guide.

SCOTCH STONE SOUR
1½ ounces Scotch whiskey
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
¾ ounce lemon juice, preferably freshly squeezed
1½ ounces orange juice, preferably freshly squeezed
½ slice orange or lemon for garnish
1 maraschino cherry for garnish
Combine ingredients with ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into cocktail glass, or empty contents, ice cubes and all, into an Old-Fashioned glass and serve on the rocks. Garnish with ½ slice orange or lemon and a maraschino cherry.
Vincent Sardi & George Shea, Sardi's Bar Guide, 1988

Review

A Scotch whisky-based sour with orange juice, and all the better for it.

Variations/similar cocktails

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Makes a minimum of 15 cocktails.
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Peter M Premium Member 1y

This is great with Johnnie Walker Black. A little boozy, but a good balance of "smoke", whisky, and citrus.

Jonathan Goldthorpe 2y

Beautiful fresh rye cocktail