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Chinese Cocktail

Charlie Paul's Chinese Cocktail is a compact brandy cocktail with sugar, Angostura, and lemon peel.

Served in Wine glass. Ice: Chipped ice.

Variants (5)

American and Other Drinks by Charlie Paul (1884, p.15)

lemon peel — Placed on top.acid
0.5brandy — Source says half a wine glassful.base
0.5 tsppowdered sugar base
dashAngostura bitters — angostura bittersbitter
  1. Fill a half-pint tumbler with chipped ice.
  2. Add the ingredients, shake well, strain into a wine glass, and place a small piece of lemon peel on top.

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: Chipped ice

Bariana by Louis Fouquet (1896, p.21) — Bariana 1896, No. 10

1 zestlemon peel — lemon zestacid
2 dashAngostura bitters — angosturabase
0.5 partcognac — cognac Curlierbase
0.5 partrum — rhumbase
4 dashcreme de noyau — noyauxmodifier
4 dashcuracao modifier
1 teaspoonpowdered sugar — sucre en poudresweetener
  1. Stir ingredients well with ice in mixing glass A, strain into glass D, add lemon zest, and serve.

Garnish: Lemon zest

Ice: Small pieces of ice

American-Bar by Aczel Miksa (1899, p.30) — Aczel 1899, No. 18

1 piecelemon peel — czitromhejacid
1 partcognac — Equal quantity with rum.base
few dropscuracao base
1 partrum — Equal quantity with cognac.base
1 teaspoonpowdered sugar — czukor porsweetener
  1. Stir curacao, sugar, equal rum and cognac with ice, strain, and serve with lemon peel.

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: Lumps of ice

L'Art du Shaker by Dominique Migliorero (1925, p.17)

3 dashAngostura bitters base
1 liqueur glassrum — Rumbase
3 dashcuracao — Curacaomodifier
3 dashMaraschino — Maraschinomodifier
3 dropGrenadine — Grenadinesweetener
  1. Shake hard and serve.

Attributed in the book to F.-P. Newman, Paris.

Tratado Practico de Cocteleria, Pasteleria y Afines by Enzo Antonetti; Mario Kardahi (1966) — International cocktails

1 dashAngostura bitters — Angosturabase
50 grum — Rhumbase
3 dashesMaraschino liqueur — Marrasquinomodifier
3 dashesOrange curacao — Curaçaomodifier
50 gGrenadine — Granadinasweetener
  1. Shake well and serve in a 80 g glass.

Ice: Ice cubes

See also: Ching-Ching, Champagne

Spelled 'Chinesse Coctail' in the source.