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Spirit-forward · Stirred · Historical · complexity 3/5

Ladies' Cocktail

A kirsch and water ladies' cocktail with powdered sugar, anisette, green mint, curacoa, and orange.

Served in Red cocktail glass D. Ice: Small pieces of ice.

Variants (2)

Bariana by Louis Fouquet (1896, p.22) — Bariana 1896, No. 16

0.5 partkirsch — Equal quantity with water.base
1 small teaspoonpowdered sugar — sucre en poudrebase
0.5 partwater — Equal quantity with kirsch.dilution
0.5 sliceOrange garnish
1 small teaspoonanisette modifier
3 dashcuracao modifier
3 dashgreen mint liqueur — menthe vertemodifier
  1. Stir ingredients with ice in mixing glass A, strain into red glass D, garnish with a half slice of orange, and serve.

Garnish: Half slice of orange

Ice: Small pieces of ice

Recipes for Mixed Drinks by Hugo R. Ensslin (1917, p.22) — Ensslin 1917

2 dashesAbsinthe base
1 jiggerWhiskey — Wilson Whiskeybase
2 dashesAngostura bitters — Angostura Bittersbitter
3 dashesanisette modifier
  1. Stir well in a mixing glass with cracked ice.
  2. Strain and serve with a piece of pineapple on top.

Garnish: Pineapple

Ice: Cracked ice

This matters because it preserves another absinthe-and-anise whiskey branch inside the pre-war stirred field.

The garnish is unusual for so spirit-forward a drink and shows how decorative finishing still survived in small aperitif service.

See also: Waldorf Cocktail, Imperial Cocktail