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Brown Derby
This is a better cocktail than the similar but honey-sweetened De Rigueur Cocktail, as unless you have a very full-bodied honey, maple syrup's 'tang' sits...
Landon Brown
28th September 2023 at 15:39
You claim that the use of honey syrup in the Brown Derby is a 'misguided belief' which stems from the '33 book "Hollywood Cocktails," but the only evidence you've given that maple syrup was in the original recipe is a column published 6 years later in '39, which uses an entirely different spirit and citrus. Seems a little dubious. Made a rather nice cocktail nonetheless.
6th October 2024 at 03:00
Perhaps there is an inference in Mr. Difford's review that the "1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book" describes a recipe for a Brown Derby with maple syrup but "when made with honey this is a De Rigueur cocktail"?
6th October 2024 at 08:00
Thanks Calvin. I've amended to hopefully make clear that the honey-sweetened De Rigueur is an earlier cocktail.