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Russian Cocktail
Sweet brandy meets dry cherry eau-de-vie in this serious vodka-laced cocktail. Contemporary bartenders may prefer to stir this cocktail but it's classically...
Leslie
12th November 2025 at 00:22
Cherry Heering is vile. I keep looking for a recipe to use it up in, in the vain hope that some combination of ingredients will retain the cherry and remove the cough medicine aspect. We tried with the extra 15ml suggested below for the vodka, it didn’t do it. I’d try this again, reversing the proportions of Kirsch and Cherry Heering.
25th January at 19:12
Hi Leslie. Have you tried the classic "Singapore Sling"? The flavour you dislike may well be masked by the pineapple, orange and lime (or lemon) flavours. In The Guide, I personally come back to the recipe by Dale DeGroff, but there are other variants, too....