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Explosivo Cocktail

Chicote's 1927 Explosivo Cocktail from the cocktails chapter.

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (2)

El Bar Americano en España by Pedro Chicote (1927, p.59)

0.5 copitaAbsinthe base
0.25 copitacazalla — Source omits the repeated unit and uses dash shorthand.base
6 dropsCuraçao base
0.25 copitaron — Source omits the repeated unit and uses dash shorthand.base
  1. Agítese muy bien y sírvase muy frío en copa de cocktail.

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.145) — Pedro Chicote 1928

0.5 copitaAbsinthe base
0.25 copitacazalla base
6 dropscuracao base
0.25 copitarum — Ronbase
  1. Shake very well and serve very cold in a cocktail glass.

This matters because it preserves a highly anise-led Spanish short drink that does not map neatly onto the standard Anglo-American cocktail line.

See also: Absinthe Cocktail, Criollo Cocktail