Delmonico
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a coupe glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
Method
- 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
- 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
Flavour profile
23.1% alc./vol. · 1.5 standard drinks · 174 calories
History
A sweet Manhattan variation; brandy substitutes for whiskey, orange bitters replace aromatic bitters.
This cocktail is named for and was likely created at New York's Delmonico's Steakhouse Restaurant. The history of this establishment dates back to 1837, when the Delmonico brothers opened "the first fine dining restaurant in the country." While a Delmonico's still exists in New York City, the restaurant owned by the Delmonico family at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue closed its doors in 1923. The Delmonico Cocktail is featured in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1935 publication, the Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. DELMONICO Dash of Orange Bitters One-half French vermouth One-half Plymouth Gin Two slices Orange Peel Adopted from the bar of Old Delmonico's, a long famous New York restaurant. In his 1948 book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Embury states that a Delmonico "is a plain Manhattan with cognac substituted for the whisky. If orange bitters are used instead of Angostura, it becomes a Harvard [not according to others]. This is sometimes also called a Saratoga. The real Saratoga, however, is made with apple brandy. There is also a Delmonico Special which is merely a Medium Martini with 1 teaspoon of brandy to each drink and a twist of orange peel."