Name: Casablanca
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 7.5 ml Orange Curaçao; 7.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 4 drop Aromatic bitters; 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised)

Casablanca
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
¹⁄₄ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
4 drop	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba or Vegan egg white alternative

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice).
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Go easy on the aromatic bitters (use drops rather than dashes) or your Casablanca will be more orange than "blanca". Original recipes in The New American Bartender's Guide and Jones' Complete Barguide omit egg white, but this variation on the White Lady tastes and looks better with an appropriately white fluffy head.

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History:

Eponymously named after Michael Curtiz's 1942 romantic drama movie starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, the plot centres around an American expatriate (Bogart) whose love for a women (Bergman) distracts him from helping a Czechoslovak resistance leader (Henreid) escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca. The women, is the resistance leader's wife and if that were not enough, the script famously delivers lines such as "Play it, Sam," "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" and "Here's looking at you kid."

CASA BLANCA
Cocktail glass
Stir
2 oz rum
½ oz lime juice
¼ oz orange curaçao
¼ oz maraschino liqueur
1 dash Angostura bitters
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

CASA BLANCA
2 oz gold Jamaica rum
¼ tsp. curaçao
¼ tsp. maraschino liqueur
1 tsp. lime juice
Dash Angostura bitters
Mix all ingredients with cracked ice in a shaker or blender and strain into chilled cocktail glass.
John J. Poister, The New American Bartender's Guide. 1999

Nutrition:

One serving of Casablanca contains 197 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
19.67% alc./vol. (19.67° proof)
21.7 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.

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Deborah Tighe

16th December 2023 at 07:35

I too prefer a white lady, a more complex flavour.
Simon, Casablanca also gave us ‘round up the usual suspects’.

Morten Carlsbaek

26th November 2023 at 16:19

Do try using a red cherry liqueur (I used Merlet Sæurs Cerises) instead of the clear Luxardo Maraschino liqueur as some Casablanca recipes suggest.
I compared the two following the recipe here (though omitting the sugar syrup) and preferred the red one having a more full filling taste. I do find the White Lady much more interesting than the clear Casablanca. Maybe I would like the clear Casablanca better, if swapping Bacardi Carta Blanca with Plantation 3 stars, but that be cheating or?

John Hinojos

26th November 2022 at 00:46

Following Andrew's suggestion, omitted the sugar syrup and it was quite sweet enough. Perfectly balanced with the nice flavours of the rum. Very interesting blend to tastes. Very good.

Louise Allen

8th January 2022 at 17:32

This is a really nice, balanced drink. I used Havana 3 y/old as I don't have Bacardi.

Andrew Scurr

21st November 2021 at 18:16

I tried this for the first time today - stonkingly good (but then I am a lover of Aviations and White Ladies). I don't think it needs the sugar to be honest.