Adonis (cocktail)
The Adonis is an alcoholic cocktail made from sherry , vermouth and orange bitters .
history
The Adonis was first demonstrably mixed in the mid-1880s in the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Its name goes back to the Broadway musical of the same name by William Gill , which premiered in New York in 1884 and was the first Broadway musical to be performed there more than 500 times.
The drink was first mentioned in writing in the book The Complete Manual of Mixing Drinks by Jacques Straub from 1913. The cocktail was mentioned in writing several decades earlier, but in the sense of a drink that corresponds to the Turf Club .
Preparation and variations
The cocktail is made from equal parts sherry fino and vermouth as well as two dashes orange bitters, which are poured into a mixing glass with ice and stirred.
The Adonis is very similar to another sherry-based cocktail, the Bamboo . The difference is that the Adonis uses sweet wormwood, while the Bamboo requires dry wormwood. The Dashes Angostura Bitter, which is sometimes used in Bamboo, also distinguish it from the Adonis. Since the Adonis, as mentioned in the book The Complete Manual of Mixing Drinks by Jacques Straub from 1913 and thus more than 20 years later than the Bamboo, appears for the first time, the Bamboo is believed to be the first cocktail based on sherry and vermouth.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c o.A .: Adonis . In: punchdrink.com (English) . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
- ↑ Dinah Sanders: Adonis . In: imbibemagazin.com (English) . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
- ^ A b Straub, Jacques: The Complete Manual of Mixing Drinks. R. Francis Welsh Publishing Co, Chicago (1913), p. 9.
- ↑ a b Armin Zimmermann: Bamboo Cocktail . In: bar-vademecum.de . September 25, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
- ↑ The Sun: Pearls from Billy, the Bartender. The Sun v. March 27, 1887, p. 9. Available at loc.gov .