The Alamagoozlum Cocktail
The first cocktail recipe in the book is the Alamagoozlum Cocktail:
- 0.5 egg white
- 2.0 ounces genever gin
- 2.0 ounces water
- 1.5 ounces Jamaican rum
- 1.5 ounces yellow or green Chartreuse
- 1.5 ounces gomme syrup
- 0.5 ounce orange curaçao
- 0.5 ounce Angostura bitters
Shake very, very hard and long in a large iced cocktail shaker and serve tremulously into several previously chilled cocktail glasses.
This is an odd one, and I find it ironic that this cocktail managed to come first in the book, as it perfectly illustrates what a vintage and forgotten cocktail should be. It contains a number of obscure ingredients, which took me some time to assemble. Then I had to wait until I had two other friends around who wanted to try it, ’cause the recipe makes enough for three glasses.
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