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Hot drink · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Cold Brandy Toddy

McDonough's Cold Brandy Toddy is a small iced brandy toddy with sugar, water, and expressed lemon peel.

brandy · sugar · lemon peel

Served in Small bar glass. Ice: Lumps of ice.

Variants (2)

McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide, and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion by Patsy McDonough (1883, p.15) — Cold

1 piecelemon peel — Twist in.acid
1 pony-wine-glassbrandy — Brandybase
0.5 tablespoonsugar — bar sugarbase
0.5 pony-wine-glasswater dilution
2 lumpice other
  1. Use a small bar glass and add the sugar, water, ice, and brandy.
  2. Stir with a spoon.
  3. Twist a piece of lemon peel in.

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: Lumps of ice

Anleitung zur Bereitung Amerikanischer Eis-Getraenke by The Continental Bodega Company (1898, p.9) — Anleitung Amerikanischer Eis-Getraenke 1898

1 wineglasscognac — Cognacbase
0.5 teaspoonsugar — Zuckerbase
0.5 wineglasswater — Wasserdilution
  1. Dissolve sugar in water, add one or two ice pieces and cognac, mix with a spoon, remove ice, and serve; the brandy bottle may be passed for self-service.

Ice: One or two ice pieces

See also: Cold Whiskey Toddy, Cold Gin Toddy, Cold Brandy Sling