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Sour · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Sir Walter Cocktail

Sir Walter Cocktail combines curacoa, lemon, brandy, grenadine, and rum in a compact late hotel-bar sour.

sweet · sour · red_fruit · oaky · aperitif · formal

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (2)

Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails by Harry of Ciro's (1923, p.78) — Swalter

1 teaspoonfullemon juice — Lemon Juiceacid
0.5 glassbrandy base
0.5 glasscuracao — Curacoabase
0.5 glassrum base
1 teaspoonfulGrenadine sweetener
  1. Shake well and strain.

This matters because it preserves another compact mixed-base sour branch under a club nickname in the late London seam.

Barflies and Cocktails by Harry McElhone and Wynn (1927, p.73) — The Swatter Cocktail

1 teaspoonfullemon juice — Lemon Juiceacid
0.33 partbrandy base
1 teaspoonfulGrenadine base
0.33 partrum — Source OCR compresses the last ratio line; preserved conservatively as the paired spirit half.base
1 teaspoonfulcuracao modifier
  1. Shake well and strain.

This matters because it preserves another named small dual-spirit sour from the interwar hotel-bar field.

The final ratio line is slightly OCR-compressed, so the split spirit structure is preserved conservatively.

Lineage reconciliation

See also: Quarter-Deck Cocktail, Side-Car Cocktail