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Snyder Martini
A 2:1 Dry Martini but with a splash of orange curaçao mellowing the dryness and adding more subtle complexity than orange bitters
Graham Taylor
19th August at 20:20
How comes it's shaken and not stirred?
20th August at 07:50
Like most cocktails in his book, Harry Craddock called for this cocktail to be shaken. However, modern bartending convention calls for this cocktail to be stirred.
20th August at 08:23
Slightly off topic, but I have frequently seen the claim that Fleming wrote Bond as preferring his martinis shaken because this indicated a certain lack of breeding. Your point about Craddock's book suggest to me that this might just be a myth?