Chocolate Cocktail
Source:
Modern American Drinks
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egg
Ingredient: egg
What it is: AdditiveBird eggs are a common food and one of the most versatile ingredients used in cooking and have long been used in drinks. Usually used to add consistency and foam, egg whites and yolks are usually separated with "silver" indicating the white and "golden" the yolk. Modern chicken eggs are much larger, so use the smallest ones available.
1/2
large bar glass
ice
fine
Ingredient: ice
What it is: AdditiveThe new general availability of ice in the mid 1800s revolutionized bar-tending and drinking. Ice was delivered in blocks that then had to to be broken, crushed, picked and shaved for increasingly popular individual drinks (as opposed to large punches).
1
dash
bitter
Substitution:
Angostura bitters
Substitution:
Peychaud bitters
Ingredient: bitter
Also Known As: aromatic bitters What it is: BittersA bitters is an alcoholic beverage that contains herbal essences, has a bitter or bittersweet flavor, and is typically flavored with citrus. There are numerous brands of bitters, which were formerly marketed as patent medicines but are now considered to be digestifs and are principally used as digestifs and as flavorings in cocktails. Bitters commonly have an alcoholic strength of 45% ABV and normally consumed only in small amounts as a digestif or when added as a flavoring agent.
1
jigger
port wine
Ingredient: port wine
What it is: PortPortuguese fortified wine from the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is typically a sweet red wine, but also comes in dry, semi-dry and white varieties. It is often served as a dessert wine.
1
tea-spoon
sugar
fine
Ingredient: sugar
What it is: AdditiveMany 19th century recipes specifically called for white sugar, which is more refined and preferred over browner sugars. But modern white sugar is probably too refined, making raw cane sugar the best, easily available choice.
Break a fresh egg into a mixing-glass, half full fine ice, add one dash bitters, one jigger port wine, one teaspoonful fine sugar. Shake well and strain into a cocktail-glass.
