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Who’s ready for a drink?

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This week we have Curacao Cocktail from John de Kuyper’s Complete Guide to Cocktails from 1965. I seriously love this book. It has a whole section of “dessert recipes” which mostly consist of alcohol poured over ice cream, desserts you can set on fire AND alcohol poured over ice cream that you can set on fire. So it’s pretty much got the whole package.

Curacao Cocktail
Author: John de Kuyper, 1965
Ingredients
  • Orange Bitters
  • 2 1/2 ounces De Kuyper Orange Curacao
  • 2 1/2 ounces orange juice
  • 1/2 ounce dry gin
  • 1/2 ounce brandy
Instructions
  1. Rinse cocktail glasses with a dash of Bitters. Shake remaining ingredients with ice. Strain into the prepared glasses. Makes 2 drinks.

 

But we stumbled upon some Orange Bitters recently, so we have been looking for cocktail recipes that use it to try for the blog. And this one fit the bill!

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Tom and his sidekick.

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“Ahhhh!”

The Verdict: Spicy Orange Juice

From The Tasting Notes –

The bitters in this drink were very interesting, but this basically just ended up tasting like spicy orange juice. It wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t great either. Tom’s Dad, who was visiting, didn’t care much for this drink and said he would have rather just skipped all this Orange Bitters nonsense and had a screwdriver.

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