Name: Fair and Warmer No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Light white rum; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 5 ml Orange Curaçao; 7.5 ml Chilled water

Fair & Warmer No. 2
Jump to

Photographed in an UB Nick And Nora 1920

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
³⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₆ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

Read about cocktail measures and measuring

Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

More cocktails with similar strength and taste profile

Review:

Sure to warm and fairly good.

View readers' comments

History:

Adapted from Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

FAIR AND WARMER COCKTAIL.
1/3 Italian Vermouth.
2/3 Bacardi Rum.
2 Dashes Curaçao.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

The "No. 2" was added to the name when the recipe was repeated in William Boothby's 1934 The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, where it follows another "Fair & Warmer" recipe.

FAIR & WARMER
Sloe Gin ....... 1/3 jigger
Sherry .......... 1/3 jigger
Dubonnet ..... 1/3 jigger
Benedictine ... 1 dash
Shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass and serve.

FAIR & WARMER, No. 2
Bacardi ............ 2/3 jigger
It. Vermouth ... 1/3 jigger
Curacoa ........... 2 dashes
Shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass and serve.
William Boothby, The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, 1934

More cocktails by Harry Craddock

Nutrition:

One serving of Fair & Warmer No. 2 contains 145 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
23.23% alc./vol. (23.23° proof)
18.6 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Join the discussion

Showing 5 comments for Fair & Warmer No. 2.
See discussion in the Forum

Please log in to make a comment

John CARR

2nd June 2024 at 13:03

For someone who isn’t a big rum drinker I thought this was very nice. Delicate and herbal with some lovely rounded characters from the Pierre Ferrand. Perfectly balanced.

Calvin Grant

15th May 2024 at 01:24

Nicely balanced and especially flavorful as it warmed up.

G. M. Genovese

25th December 2023 at 07:21

Not much going on. A lot of vermouth with a surprisingly-bold overtone of orange, cut on the top with a mildly-medicinal (rum-)spiritous accent. I used my trusty Bacardi Carta Blanca and I would recommend exploring other brands of white rum with this. Don't write it off just yet.