Fancy Brandy

Name: Fancy Brandy
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Cognac (brandy); 5 ml Orange Curaçao; 5 ml Gomme syrup; 5 ml Chilled water; 1 dash Boker's style bitters

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Gomme syrup
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)
1 dash	Difford's Bokers Bitters By Bob's Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Fancy Brandy contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
25.5% alc./vol. (51.01° proof)
20.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe by Charles Schumann, Munich, Germany, and published in his American Bar. Very similar to Jerry Thomas' Fancy Brandy Cocktail, published in the 1862 edition of his The Bar-tenders Guide.

107. Brandy Cocktail.
(Use small bar glass)
3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup.
2 do. Bitters (Bogart's).
1 wine-glass of brandy.
1 or 2 dashes of Curaçao.
Squeeze lemon peel; fill one-third full of ice, and stir with a spoon.

108. Fancy Brandy Cocktail.
(Use small bar glass)
The drink is made the same as the brandy cocktail, except that it is strained in a fancy wine-glass, and a piece of lemon peel thrown on top, and the edge of the glass moistened with lemon.
Jerry Thomas, The Bar-tenders Guide, 1862

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Review

This appropriately named brandy-based cocktail benefits from dilution, hence my addition of a splash of water. Modern bartending convention might lead you to stir rather than shake this cocktail, which would be a shame, as it's better shaken!

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