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Fancy Cocktail

Fancy Cocktail is the gin-cocktail template strained into a sugared fancy wine glass with lemon peel.

gin · sugar rim · lemon · aperitif

Served in Fancy wine glass. Ice: None.

Variants (3)

American and Other Drinks by Leo Engel (1878, p.41)

1 piecelemon peel — thrown on topacid
1 wine glassgin base
3 dashsimple syrup — plain syrupbase
3 dashBoker's bitters — two or threebitter
2 dashcuracao — orange curacaomodifier
rimsugar — white or coloured sugarsweetener
  1. Make the same way as Gin Cocktail, strain into a fancy wine glass, throw lemon peel on top, and sugar the rim.

Garnish: Lemon peel and sugared rim

Ice: None

Drinks, and How to Make Them by Yeatman & Co. (1879, p.6) — Fancy

lemon juice — For moistening the glass edge.acid
1 piecelemon peel — Placed on top.acid
cocktail base — gin, brandy, or whiskey cocktailbase
1 wholestrawberry garnish
sugar — powdered sugarsweetener
  1. Make the gin, brandy, or whiskey cocktail in the usual way.
  2. Strain into a fancy wine-glass with the edge moistened with lemon juice and dipped in powdered sugar.
  3. Place a piece of lemon peel and a strawberry on top.

Garnish: Lemon peel and strawberry

How to Mix Drinks by George L. Spaulding and W. Rositer (1906, p.13) — Spaulding and Rositer 1906, cocktails section

lemon juice — Rubbed on the rim.base
fine sugar — Used to sugar the rim.sweetener
  1. Give any cocktail an extra flavor by rubbing the rim of the glass with lemon juice and dipping the rim in fine sugar.

Garnish: Sugared rim

See also: Gin Cocktail, Brandy Crusta

This drink is defined by treatment and presentation rather than a separate liquid formula.