Name: Margaret Rose
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Calvados apple brandy; 15 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Grenadine syrup

Margaret Rose
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Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₂ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange 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:

Depending on your lemon juice, this Sidecar-like Daisy may benefit from an additional 2.5ml sugar syrup to balance.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book where it is credited to "J. W. Fish".
(Our thanks to Jason Clapham of Oxford, England for bringing this recipe to our attention.)

MARGARET ROSE
1/3 Gin.
1/3 Calvados.
1/6 Cointreau.
1/6 Lemon Juice.
Dash Grenadine.
Shake.
William James Tarling, Café Royal Bar Book, 1937

Nutrition:

One serving of Margaret Rose contains 191 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
23.5% alc./vol. (23.5° proof)
22.3 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

15th April 2022 at 00:30

Wonderful cocktail. A perfect blending of the herbal gin and the apple hints of the calvados. We used a little less grenadine as we like our drinks sour and our lemons are a little on the sweet side. Great.