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So So Cocktail

Name: So So Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Calvados apple brandy; 5 ml Grenadine syrup

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Method

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of float (dehydrated) apple slice.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of So So Cocktail contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
22.8% alc./vol. (45.6° proof)
18.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The "So So Cocktail" appears in Harry MacElhone's's 1923 Harry of Ciro's ABC Of Mixing Cocktails where he credits this drink to "Mr P. Soso, the popular manager of Kit-Kat Club, London."

So So Cocktail.
1/6 Grenadine,
1/6 Calvados,
1/3 Cinzano Vermouth,
1/3 Gin.
(Invented by Mr, P. Soso, the popular manager of Ciro's Club, London.
Harry MacElhone, 1923

MacElhone's recipe is repeated verbatim in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book but with MacElhone's stipulation for "Cinzano Vermouth" becoming non-brand specific "Italian vermouth".

SO-SO COCKTAIL.
1/6 Grenadine.
1/6 Calvados.
1/3 Italian Vermouth.
1/3 Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Review

This beautifully balanced, delicately herbal cocktail is so much more than just so-so.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$33.99 $1.36 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$14.99 $0.10 per cocktail Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) image

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Mason Hanson Premium Member 29w

I made this with St. George apple brandy. For my taste, I needed a little extra grenadine to balance out the taste of the brandy -- others might not need this. But even before I added the extra syrup, I was pleasantly surprised at how much the apple notes in the brandy came out.

Ellen Olerud 4y

Perfect for us Negroni lovers

Sherri Rita 4y

A very nice cocktail for the fall. Applely without being too sweet.

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