Name: Chicago
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 5 ml Orange Curaçao; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 150 ml Brut sparkling wine

Chicago
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Glass:

Serve in a Flute glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
5 fl oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine chilled

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.
RIM glass with sugar (moisten the outside edge with orange juice and dip into sugar).

How to make:

STIR first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with sparkling wine.

Garnish:

No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A sugar-crusted rim replaces the sugar cube in the classic Champagne Cocktail with extra interest thanks to a splash of orange liqueur.

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History:

The Chicago Cocktail first appears in Robert Vermeire's 1922 Cocktails How to Mix Them, and also notably features in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. A Chicago Cocktail also appears in the 1935 first edition of Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide.

Chicago Cocktail.
The Chicago Cocktail is also called "Fancy Brandy Cocktail." It is a plain Brandy Cocktail with a little Champagne on the top, and the squeezed lemon-peel dropped in the glass. Before straining the mixture into the cocktail-glass, moisten the outside borders of the glass with Lemon Juice and dip into pulverised sugar.
Robert Vermeire, Cocktails How to Mix Them, 1922

CHICAGO COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1 Dash Curaçao.
2/3 Brandy.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Frost edge of glass with castor sugar and fill with Champagne.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

CHICAGO COCKTAIL.
2 oz. Old Mr. Boston Five Star Brandy
1 Dash Bitters
¼ Teaspoon Curacao
Stir well with cracked ice and strain into 3 oz. cocktail glass. Frost glass by rubbing slice of lemon around rim and then dip in powdered sugar.
Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide, 42nd print, 1968

Nutrition:

One serving of Chicago contains 173 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
12.72% alc./vol. (25.45° proof)
23 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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John Hinojos

8th July 2023 at 00:28

Very nice small cocktail. Perfect for an afternoon or early evening. The flavour of the cognac comes through, but there was just something that seem to give it a slight off flavour toward the end. Thinking it is the dry curacao. It is a bitter flavour, but more bitter orange than a spice bitter.