Lady’s Maid

Name: Lady’s Maid
Yield: Makes 1 Cocktail
Cuisine: Americian
Ingredients: About ¾ fl oz (20 ml) seltzer water; ½ fl oz (15 ml) ruby port for Baxter version, or Campari or other similar Italian-style aperitif liqueur, for O’Brien version; ¾ fl oz (20 ml) fresh lemon juice; 2 fl oz (60 ml) whiskey; ½ fl oz (15 ml) simple syrup (see note)

Preparation info

Makes
1
Cocktail

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cocktail Book

By Downton Abbey

Published 2019

About

In the series, Cora’s lady’s maids, Baxter and O’Brien, are polar opposites, and this drink plays on those personalities through the New York Sour: it can be made sweet or bitter.

Ingredients

2 fl oz (60 ml) whiskey
½ fl oz (15 m

Americas
United States
Drinks
Vegan
New York
Gluten-free

Method

Combine the whiskey, simple syrup, and lemon juice in a shaker. Add ice, shake hard for 8–10 seconds, and strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass.

Top with the seltzer, then float with the port, for a Baxter version, or with the Campari, for an O’Brien version (see note).