Tract · Cocktails

Spirit-forward · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Side Car

Side Car here includes egg white and a frosted sugared glass along with equal parts lemon, triple sec, and brandy.

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Ice.

Variants (2)

Peychaud's New Orleans Cocktails by John Held Jr. (1935, p.15)

0.5 partbrandy — Brandybase
0.5 partlemon juice — Lemon Juicebase
0.5 parttriple sec — Cointreau or Triple Secmodifier
1 unitegg white — Egg whiteother
powdered sugar — Powdered Sugarsweetener
  1. Shake well with ice and strain into a cocktail glass frosted with powdered sugar.

Garnish: Sugared rim

Ice: Ice

The Artistry of Mixing Drinks by Frank Meier (1936, p.39)

0.5 partbrandy — Brandybase
0.25 partlemon juice — Lemon Juicebase
0.25 parttriple sec — Curaçao Triple-Secmodifier
  1. Shake well and serve.