welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark today we're going to do a cocktail out
of this book the savoy cocktail book this was printed in 1930
and they are recipes compiled by harry craddock
harry craddock is a guy that you'll hear quoted over and over and over in the
cocktail world and a lot of people treat this as the
holy grail of prohibition cocktail books i think
it's really interesting it's very well printed
it's very beautiful inside it is the earliest cocktail book that i own
that has vodka cocktails in it there are two and we're going to do one today
called the russian cocktail and i'm not really sure what makes it
russian other than the vodka they've shoehorned vodka in with the other
ingredients and so this is equal parts creme de
cacao and don't judge my creme de cacao this
is the only one available where we live next it calls for dry gin
and i'm using a local dry gin a really nice one
and then vodka and again i'm using a local potato vodka in this one
now we ice the tin
and give it a really good shake
and now we strain it into a cocktail glass so i've got a couple of nick and
nora's
and i'll give it a double strain
now i hear you screaming i hear you screaming you're already typing
why is this idiot shaking a cocktail that is only alcohol you're only ever
supposed to stir those cocktails hi friends that's a great question well
good and this comes up all the time in the comments
in the comment section people tell me that i have stirred a cocktail that i
should have shaken or shaken a cocktail that i should have stirred
based on what all of the pundits drill into your head in 2020 and they
say there's only one way that you can do things
but i assume you're just following the recipe i'm following the recipe
in prohibition and pre-prohibition times um the person mixing the cocktail who
developed the cocktail they would either shake or stir not
based on the ingredients but based on what they wanted to get across to the
customer um or based on the customer's preference so
don't feel that you have to adhere to those rules those black and white on and
off rules
do it your own way you might find that a cocktail that you're only ever supposed
to stir you love it when you shake it like we
did with the martini okay yes but now i'm intrigued because
what you've just said as i walked in was that this only has
alcohol it only has alcohol it's got three ounces
three ounces of alcohol so let's see how this works out
that's like a little pleasantly light chocolatey drink yeah
that's surprising i'm totally surprised i was expecting three ounces of pure
alcohol to be like one of those drinks where you kind of
put it in your mouth and it went and you kind of went
okay so there's there's quite a bit of sugar in that creme de cacao yeah
but it holds it all together really nicely this is a oh
it pains me that i'm gonna say this it's a chocolatini it's a chocolatini
that someone couldn't decide whether they were going to make it with gin
or vodka so there's made it bigger and made it with both made it together
so harry craddock out sex in the city sex in the city a hundred years before
it came on the air how about there you go way to go harry
it's quite pleasant cheers for harry good one harry that is quite pleasant
isn't it
so i've used a potato vodka um local ish potato vodka and a local-ish
rye gin which of course is going to give you a different flavor
the i find potato vodkas have a nice viscous taste on your mouth on your
tongue like not a taste but a nice viscous feel on
your tongue
that is it's what it is it's chocolate creamed cocoa it's sugary and sweet and
chocolatey i'd say this is a winner me too i'm
pretty happy with that thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
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