Name: Flip Cocktail (generic recipe)
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 1 fresh Egg (white and yolk)

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Brandy, whisk(e)y, gin, rum etc.

1/2 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

1 fresh

Egg (white & yolk)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a SOUR OR MARTINI/COUPETTE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of grated nutmeg.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.

DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Dust with freshly grated nutmeg.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

18.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg (white & yolk) — Eggs

History

Flips basically consist of any fortified wine or liquor shaken with a whole egg and sweetened with sugar. They are typically garnished with a dusting of nutmeg and served in a sour glass or small coupe. They can be served hot or cold.

Flips, emerged in the early 1600s and Charles Dickens includes this popular drink of the day in his 1861 novel Great Expectations. Early flips consisted of a tankard of ale to which a mixture made from sugar, eggs and spices was added before being heated with a red-hot iron poker from the fire. Later they came to mean any fortified wine or liquor shaken with a whole egg and sweetened with sugar.

Comments & Discussion

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Aaron Fredriksson 1 year ago

Im not sure how u got urs so white and fluffy in the picture! You mention a whole egg including the yolk, no matter how much i shake it turns yellow and tastes absolutely awful🤣 afraid this is not for me

Chris Lamb 3 years ago

This is the drink Pip has before he leaves for London in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations:

"On this last evening, I dressed myself out in my new clothes for their delight, and sat in my splendour until bedtime. We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. We were all very low, and none the higher for pretending to be in spirits."