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Highball · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Tod's Cooler

Chicote's Tod's Cooler uses cassis and a little dry gin, then finishes the drink with soda instead of ginger ale.

Served in Large goblet.

Variants (2)

El Bar Americano en España by Pedro Chicote (1927, p.89)

0.5 copitadry gin base
0.5 lemonjugo de medio limón base
soda — Used to fill the drink.dilution
1 tablespooncrema de cassis — Source omits the repeated unit and uses dash shorthand.modifier
1 tablespoonazúcar sweetener
  1. Build in a large goblet with lemon juice, sugar, cassis, and dry gin.
  2. Stir very well and finish with soda.

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.248) — Cassis and gin

0.5 lemonlemon juice — Jugo de medio limonacid
0.5 copitadry gin base
0.5 tablespoonsugar — Azucarbase
Soda water — Sodadilution
1creme de cassis — Crema de cassismodifier
  1. Shake very well and top with soda in a large glass.

Ice: Shaken with ice

This matters because it preserves a cassis-led gin cooler branch in Chicote's late long-drink field.

The cassis unit is damaged in OCR, but the ingredient identity and overall structure are clear enough to preserve conservatively.

See also: Bronzink Cooler, Bulldog Cooler