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Buttercup

Name: Buttercup
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Oude genever; 22.5 ml Caramel liqueur; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Oude genever
³⁄₄ fl oz	Giffard Caramel Toffee liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest and Werther's original.

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with lemon zest (not expressed as the oils overpower the butterscotch) across rim on which to nestle a Werther's Original.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Buttercup contains 206 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
24.63% alc./vol. (49.27° proof)
25.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

My adaptation of a recipe I discovered in January 2014 at The House of Bols in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

When made to Lucas Bols original specification: 1 shot Bols Genever, 1 shot Bols Butterscotch liqueur and ¾ shot sweet vermouth, this drink has a great flavour but lacks balls (or perhaps I should say Bols). Hence, the above formula is heavy on the genever with equal parts butterscotch liqueur and sweet vermouth. It's even better with an oude genever rather than a jonge as this amplifies the butterscotch notes.

WARNING: Buttercup flowers are poisonous, so don't use them as a garnish. They are also poisonous when eaten by livestock, but their acrid taste and the blistering of the mouth they cause mean that animals don't tend to eat them. Interestingly, the toxins degrade when dried, so hay containing dried buttercups is safe for animals to eat.

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Comments & Discussion

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Temirlan Premium Member 15w

Tried with Beefeater instead of oude genever, also used less gin (30 ml). Unfortunately, caramel liqueur was not recognizable, taste was full of rosso vermouth.

Herbert Brant 3y

Wonderful cocktail! I'll admit that I wasn't sure about the mix of rosso vermouth with the genever and the stroopwafel, but it works beautifully. This is a delight!

Kevin Duffy 4y

This is a very nice but not overly sweet cocktail. Definitely a crowd pleaser and simple to make.