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Spirit-forward · Shaken · Historical · complexity 1/5

Perla de Oriente Cocktail

Chicote's Perla de Oriente combines apricot brandy, white mint, and cream.

stone_fruit · mint · sweet · creamy · after-dinner · formal

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Cracked ice.

Variants (1)

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.203) — Apricot and white mint

0.5 copitaapricot brandy base
0.25 copitawhite creme de menthe — Menta blancamodifier
0.25 copitacream — Crema de lecheother
  1. Shake and serve in a cocktail glass.

Ice: Cracked ice

This matters because it preserves a cream-and-apricot after-dinner branch with white mint in the Chicote corpus.

See also: Apricot Cocktail, Perla Cocktail