Name: Fine and Dandy
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Fine & Dandy
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup) optional
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Gin Sour sweetened with orange liqueur. Harry Craddock's original 1930 recipe calls for 1 part lemon, 1 part triple sec, and 2 parts gin. Depending on your lemons, this tends to produce an overly sour cocktail, hence I've reduced the citrus and added a touch of sugar.

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History:

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

FINE AND DANDY COCKTAIL.
¼ Lemon Juice.
¼ Cointreau.
½ Plymouth Gin.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Fine & Dandy contains 169 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
23.18% alc./vol. (23.18° proof)
20.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Rollin Kuhn

3rd November 2023 at 04:15

She's a boozy one! It's good as written but not mind-blowing. What I really like about it is it's very gin-forward, so the gin you choose will very much affect the character of it. The overall balance of sweet, aromatic, and sour is good. It supports the gin's character.

John Hinojos

30th August 2023 at 00:11

Wonderful cocktail. Great for gin lovers and novices. Not overly sweet and the orange and lemon with the herbal. Delightful.

Anonymous

31st July 2021 at 16:31

Very accessible . A perfect balance of sweet orange, bitter lemon which together with the colour of the end result makes for a very pleasant pre dinner cocktail for gin drinkers.

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