THE CALVADOS COCKTAIL

THE CALVADOS COCKTAIL
1 measure Calvados
1 measure orange juice
½ measure Cointreau
½ measure orange bitters

It’s vintage cocktail week! The next five days, I will be making cocktails from a great little book called Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh, a.k.a. Dr. Cocktail. It’s a book of original, classic, cocktail recipes from the nineteenth century to the golden age after World War II. These cocktails pre-dated artificial mixes and sugary sweet additions. I may get to all 100 recipes in the book before this year is done, but tonight I tried the CALVADOS COCKTAIL. It uses Calvados, a French apple brandy that should be easy to find in any well-stocked liquor store.

 

To make the CALVADOS COCKTAIL, I put the ingredients above into a shaker, added ice, gave it some shakes and strained it into a small martini glass, though a larger one would have been better. I then added a lemon slice for garnish, slitting it for proper placement. An orange slice could have been used too.

The fruity tasting CALVADOS COCKTAIL will brighten up your glass and brighten up your day. It was created during the depression and it may have been the original Prozac. It has a strong taste and a bit of a back bite to it, but also a strong orange flavor that makes for wonderful drinking. It didn’t need ice and it wasn’t just a sipping cocktail. The recipe’s description says that it is a cocktail that has largely been forgotten. That’s a shame. Help me revive it and give it a try.

Drink Up^
Cocktail Connie