Harry Craddock, Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930.
| ¾ oz · 22 ml | GIN | 40 % |
| ¾ oz · 22 ml | COINTREAU | 40 % |
| ¾ oz · 22 ml | LILLET BLANC | 17 % |
| ¾ oz · 22 ml | LEMON JUICE | |
| 0.1 dashes | ABSINTHE RINSE | 60 % |
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
| Pre-batch | 3 oz mixed with ice, 0.73 oz of it pure alcohol |
|---|---|
| Melt | Shaken: +20 % of the pre-batch, +0.6 oz of water |
| Served | 3 + 0.6 = 3.6 oz in the glass |
| Strength | 0.73 ÷ 3.6 = 20.2 % ABV as served |
| Ethanol | 0.73 oz × 29.57 ml × 0.789 g/ml = 17 g · about 119 kcal from the alcohol alone |
FROM GIN
The pine note in juniper berries, and the reason gin tastes like a forest. Co-distilled with the spirit during production. Found in actual pine trees, rosemary, basil, and a good London Dry. The "Christmas tree" smell of gin and the smell of a forest floor share a single molecule.
FROM ABSINTHE · the wormwood compound, mythologized
The wormwood compound that got absinthe banned for ninety years over a panic that turned out to be mostly wrong. A GABA-A antagonist at high doses, but the doses in actual absinthe, both modern and historical, were always too low to cause the hallucinations the lore promised. Bans lifted between 1988 and 2007 once the chemistry was finally measured properly.
ALSO IN Sazerac · French 75 · Zombie · Death in the Afternoon · Remember the Maine · Tuxedo No. 2 · Tuxedo No. 3
FROM LEMON · the lemon aroma
Lemon's defining note: technically a mix of two geometric isomers (geranial and neral) that read as the same aroma to the nose. Lemon peel, lemongrass, lemon verbena, and Indian chai all carry it. In cocktails it's what a lemon twist contributes that lemon juice can't: the volatile expressed from the oil glands, not the acid from the pulp.
ALSO IN Margarita · Mojito · Daiquiri · Whiskey Sour · Gimlet · Moscow Mule · Paper Plane · Aviation
Gin, lemon, Cointreau, Lillet Blanc and an absinthe rinse. Alpha-pinene comes from juniper, thujone from absinthe and citral from lemon. The name comes from the tradition of the morning eye-opener. The bright citrus and orange liqueur mask the proof.
One of two Craddock cocktails sharing the name (the #1 is brandy-based and pre-Prohibition; the #2 is the survivor). Equal parts gin, Cointreau, Lillet Blanc, lemon juice, with an absinthe rinse. Craddock's note in the book: 'four taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again.'
