Name: Mountain Cocktail
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Whisk(e)y - Bourbon whiskey; 15 ml Vermouth - Dry; 15 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 15 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 15 ml Pasteurised egg white; 6 Abbott's bitters (optional)

Serve in

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Skewered Luxardo Maraschino cherry

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
1/2 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1/2 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Pasteurised egg white or Aquafaba (chickpea water) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
6 drop	Bob's Abbotts bitters (optional)
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Hazardous ingredients

Pasteurised egg white is potentially hazardous to those with allergy or intolerance.

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Review:

Bone dry - I prefer with the addition of half spoon sugar syrup.

History:

This vintage cocktail is thought to have been originally made at New York's Hoffman House and a recipe for the Mountain Cocktail appears in Charles S. Mahoney's 1905 The Hoffman House Bartender's Guide.

Mountain Cocktail.
Large whiskey glass full of whiskey, little shaved ice, six dashes Tonka bitters, five dashes of lemon syrup, six dashes of sugar syrup, five dashes of Vermouth, white of a beaten egg, one cherry; strain in cocktail glass.
Charles S. Mahoney, 1905

Nutrition:

156 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
17.76% alc./vol. (35.52° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

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