Tract · Cocktails

Sour · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Roosevelt

Roosevelt is muddled lemon, sugar, apple whiskey, and a dash of brandy.

apple-whiskey · lemon · bright · after-dinner

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Ice.

Variants (2)

The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book by Albert Stevens Crockett (1935, p.96)

1 jiggerapple whiskey base
1 dashbrandy base
0.5 wholelemon — Muddledbase
1 spoonsugar sweetener
  1. Shake and strain over fruit.

Ice: Ice

Named to compliment the author of the Square Ditto.

Café Royal Cocktail Book by W. J. Tarling (1937, p.181)

0.25 partgin — Ginbase
0.25 partlemon juice — Lemon Juicebase
0.25 partrum — Jamaica Rumbase
0.25 partGrenadine — Grenadinesweetener
  1. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.