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China Cocktail

Chicote's 1927 China Cocktail from the cocktails chapter.

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Ice.

Variants (2)

El Bar Americano en España by Pedro Chicote (1927, p.55)

2 coffee spoonjugo de mandarina acid
ice — Unos pedacitos de hielo picadobase
ron Jamaica — Used to fill the drink.base
4 dropsAngostura bitters bitter
4 copitaCuraçao — Source omits the repeated unit and uses dash shorthand.modifier
4 copitamarrasquino — Source omits the repeated unit and uses dash shorthand.modifier
  1. Agítese muy bien y sírvase muy frío en copa de cocktail.

Ice: Ice

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.126) — Pedro Chicote 1928

2 coffee spoonmandarin juice — Jugo de mandarinaacid
4 dropsAngostura bitters base
Jamaica rum — Ron Jamaicabase
4 dropscuracao modifier
4 dropsMaraschino — Marrasquinomodifier
  1. Shake very well and serve very cold in a cocktail glass.

Ice: Chopped ice

This matters because it preserves a mandarin-accented Jamaica-rum branch in the Spanish interwar cocktail field.

See also: Jamaica Rum Cocktail, Chinese Cocktail