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Widow's Dream Cocktail

Considine's Widow's Dream Cocktail is a rich Benedictine egg-and-milk house drink.

benedictine · milky · eggy · after-dinner

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (2)

The Buffet Blue Book by John H. Considine (1912, p.62)

1 jiggerBenedictine base
1 eggegg — fresh eggother
Milk and cream — Fill up.other
  1. Put the Benedictine and fresh egg into a cocktail glass.
  2. Fill up with milk and cream and serve.

Source presents this as a direct service drink rather than a separately described shaking step.

Recipes for Mixed Drinks by Hugo R. Ensslin (1917, p.36) — Ensslin 1917

1 drinkBenedictine base
cream — Source says to fill up with cream rather than giving a fixed measure.other
1 wholeegg — fresh Eggother
  1. Build in a cocktail glass with a cold fresh egg.
  2. Fill up with cream and serve.

This matters because it preserves a very different Widow's Dream lineage from the more spirit-forward forms seen elsewhere in the corpus.

The direct build and open-ended cream fill are part of the drink's identity and should not be forced into a tighter modern ratio.

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See also: Widow's Dream, Panama Cocktail