Fancy Brandy Cocktail

Source: The Bartender's Guide: How To Mix Drinks page: 50

3 to 4 dash gum syrup

Ingredient: gum syrup

Also Known As: Gomme syrup What it is: Syrup

An ingredient commonly used in mixed drinks. Like bar syrups, it is a sugar and water mixture, but has an added ingredient of gum arabic which acts as an emulsifier.

Substitution: simple syrup

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2 dash Bogart's bitters

Ingredient: Bogart's bitters

Also Known As: Boker's What it is: Bitters

Corruption of the correct name, "Boker's", a popular bitters in the late 19th century.

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1 wine-glass brandy

Ingredient: brandy

What it is: Brandy

Brandy (from brandywine, derived from Dutch brandewijn—"burnt wine") is a spirit produced by distilling wine, the wine having first been produced by fermenting grapes. Brandy generally contains 35%–60% alcohol by volume and is typically taken as an after-dinner drink. While some brandies are aged in wooden casks, most are colored with caramel coloring to imitate the effect of such aging.

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1 to 2 dash Curaçao

Ingredient: Curaçao

Also Known As: Curaçoa What it is: Bitters

Liqueur flavored with the dried peels of the laraha citrus fruit, grown on the island of Curaçao. Earlier versions were based on brandy or rum but now use neutral spirits.

Substitution: Triple sec

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1 piece lemon

Ingredient: lemon

What it is: Fruit

Common name for Citrus limon.

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peel

(Use small bar glass.)

This drink is made the same as the brandy cocktail, except that it is strained in a fancy wine-glass, and a piece of lemon peel thrown on top, and the edge of the glass moistened with lemon.