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Alamagoozlum

Classic/vintage

3.8 22 ratings

Ingredients

2/3 oz Oude genever
1/2 oz Aged Jamaican rum
1/2 oz Chartreuse Yellow
1/6 oz Orange Curaçao
1/6 oz Aromatic bitters
1/3 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
2/3 oz Chilled water
1/2 oz Egg white (pasteurised)

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
  2. 4 DRY SHAKE (without ice).
  3. 5 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 6 Garnish with pineapple wedge on rim.

Flavour profile

17.6% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 174 calories

History

Tastes reminiscent of Cough Candy, with five big-flavoured ingredients combining harmoniously, including a substantial 5ml (1/6oz) of bitters.

A "Plantation Alamagoozlum" was referenced in a 1935 column in The Indianapolis News as "an excellent preventive of colds and chills." It later appeared as an Alamagoozlum in a 1937 edition of the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal. Most notably, Charles H. Baker included it in his 1939 book The Gentleman's Companion: Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask as "J. Pierpont Morgan's Alamagoozlum, the Personal Mix Credited to that Financier, Philanthropist, & Banker of a Bygone Era." Baker provided the following recipe "To serve about 5 cocktails: take 1 jigger each of Jamaica rum, gomme syrup, and yellow or green Chartreuse; add ½ pony yellow Curaçao and ½ pony of Angostura bitters. Add 2 scant ponies of Holland gin, the same of water; donate ½ the white of an egg and hard shake with lots of cracked ice. Serve in a Manhattan glass." The recipe used here is based on David A. Embury's 1948 book The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. Embury stated, "This cocktail is supposed to have been a specialty of the elder Morgan of the House of Morgan, which goes to prove as a bartender he was an excellent banker." Both Charles H. Baker and David Embury attributed the creation, or at least the drink's popularity, to John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837 - 1913). Morgan was a Wall Street banker and financier who led the banking firm that became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., and later Morgan, Grenfell & Company. J. P. Morgan favored drinking in style and frequented fashionable New York City clubs, including the Union Club. After his friend, John King, president of Erie Railroad, was denied membership, Morgan resigned. In 1891, he established the Metropolitan Club of New York. He commissioned Stanford White to "...build me a club fit for gentlemen, forget the expense..." at One East 60th Street, on the corner of 5th Avenue. As the club's first President, he invited John King to be a charter member.

Created by David A. Embury