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Sour · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Bismarck Fizz

Chicote's Bismarck Fizz combines gin, lemon, sugar, egg yolk, and seltzer.

citrus · sweet · refreshing · restorative

Served in Large glass.

Variants (2)

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.268) — Pedro Chicote 1928

0.5 small glassgin — Ginebrabase
0.5 lemonlemon juice — Jugo de medio limonbase
Seltzer water — Agua de seltzdilution
0.5 yolkegg yolk — Yema de huevoother
0.5 tablespoonsugar — Azucarsweetener
  1. Shake very well and top with seltzer in a large glass.

This matters because it preserves a yolk-based gin fizz branch in Chicote's Madrid service world.

The Artistry of Mixing Drinks by Frank Meier (1936, p.58)

0.5 lemonlemon juice — Lemon Juicebase
1 glasssloe gin — Sloe Ginbase
Soda water — Schweppes Soda Water or Syphondilution
  1. Shake well, strain into a fizz glass, add soda water or syphon, and serve.

See also: Golden Fizz, Gin Fizz