Japanese Cocktail

Name: Japanese Cocktail
Yield: Makes 1 Cocktail
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 fl oz (60 ml) Cognac; ½ fl oz (15 ml) orgeat syrup; Lemon twist, for garnish; 3 dashes Angostura bitters

Preparation info

Makes
1
Cocktail

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cocktail Book

By Downton Abbey

Published 2019

About

This recipe is from the 1887 edition of Jerry Thomas’s The Bar-Tenders Guide and is basically an Old Fashioned in a cocktail glass instead of on the rocks. And no, there is nothing Japanese about the drink other than the name.

Ingredients

2 fl oz (60 ml) Cognac
½ fl oz (15 ml

Asia
Japan
Vegan
Gluten-free
Drinks

Method

Combine the Cognac, orgeat syrup, and bitters in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until well chilled, 20–30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Express the lemon zest over the drink and drop it into the glass.