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Criterion Cocktail

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. one wine
  2. Benedictine
  3. Bitters
  4. Whiskey
  5. Liqueur
  6. Gin
  7. Cocktail
  8. Brandy
  9. a pint of water

Method

  1. To make a splendid bottle of Criterion Cocktail, use the following ingredients : — Three-eighths of a bottle of brandy ;
  2. half a pint of water ;
  3. one liqueur glass of Boker's bitters ;
  4. one wine glass of plain syrup ;
  5. half a liqueur glass of Benedictine.
  6. The author has always used this recipe in compounding the above beverage for connoisseurs.
  7. Whiskey and Gin Cocktails in bottles may be made by using the above recipe, substituting those liquors in place of brandy.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
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Credit

From American & other drinks (1878), printed page 38, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b2039715x

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.