Carrol Cocktail

Difford's Guide
Discerning Drinkers (9 ratings)
Ingredients:
60 ml Cognac (brandy)
30 ml Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered pickled walnut or onion.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with skewered pickled walnut or onion.

Allergens:


Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:


Review:

Basically a Brandy Manhattan without bitters. Spirit-forward and dry yet easy.

Variant:

Carrol Gardens

History:

A pre-Prohibition era cocktail published in the 1923 book "Harry" of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails.

Carrol Cocktail.
1/3 Italian Vermouth, 2/3 Brandy.
Serve with pickled walnut in cocktail glass.
(This cocktail was well known at the Plaza Hotel, New York, before Prohibition.)

Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails, 1923

Nutrition:

One serving of Carrol Cocktail contains 176 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.6 standard drinks
  • 25.2% alc./vol. (50.4° proof)
  • 22.7 grams of pure alcohol
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