Cosmopolitan (cocktail)
The Cosmopolitan ("Cosmo" for short) is a tart, sweet, refreshing cocktail whose modern recipe - based on the basic structure of a sour - consists of flavored vodka , orange liqueur , lime - and cranberry juice . A short drink with this name was first mentioned in a bar book from 1934, but the Cosmopolitan in its current form has only been available worldwide since the 1990s. It symbolizes the modern, design-oriented bar that the bar boom of the 1990s brought about.
history
The forerunner of today's Cosmopolitan is considered to be a gin- based cocktail that appeared in a US collection of recipes for bartenders in 1934 , published by the Traveling Mixologists . The recipe for gin drinks is listed under “Miscellaneous” as the only drink in the Daisies group. "Daisy" means "daisy" and was a very rare group of drinks in bar books of the 19th and early 20th centuries. According to the Traveling Mixologists , they were similar to the crustas except for the missing sugar rim on the glass and were sweetened with fruit extract. For the Cosmopolitan , 4.5 cl gin, 2 Dashes Cointreau , the juice of a lemon and 1 teaspoon of raspberry syrup with ice cubes had to be shaken in a cocktail shaker and then strained into a small goblet . This recipe bears a clear similarity to the sidecar that was already popular in the 1930s and is made from brandy , Cointreau and lemon juice and is itself a variation on a brandy daisy . In other volumes of the recipe collection, the name “Cosmopolitan” is also used for completely different drinks: for a drink made from rye whiskey , crème yvette , vermouth , grenadine and picon , for a punch made from rye whiskey, Cointreau and port wine , for another punch made of yellow chartreuse , Bénédictine , lemon juice, sugar, Burgundy and mineral water and finally for a (hot) grog with sherry and Jamaican rum .
The recipe for the Gin Cosmopolitan from 1934, however, no longer appears in bar books of later decades and was forgotten, just as the other drinks of the same name in the collection were no longer consumed. In the 1980s, a stealth martini began to circulate in the USA , the name of which is attributed to Barnaby Concrad III and which, with the exception of flavored vodka, already had all the ingredients of the modern Cosmopolitan, namely vodka , orange liqueur, lime juice and cranberry juice . The short drink kamikaze (vodka, orange liqueur, lime juice) and the long drink Cape Codder made from vodka, cranberry juice and lime juice are further "relatives" or forerunners of the modern cosmopolitan .
Shortly after the vodka Absolut Citron was launched in the USA in 1985, Cheryl Cook is said to have mixed the first “modern” Cosmopolitan with lemon vodka , Triple Sec , Rose's Lime Juice and cranberry juice in her bar The Strand in Miami Beach . The New York bartender Toby Cecchini finally used the Cointreau brand and freshly squeezed lime juice as Triple Sec at the end of the 1980s , creating today's standard recipe.
In the late 1990s, the Cosmopolitan gained notoriety through the television series Sex and the City , in which it was the main characters' favorite drink.
In 2006, the authors Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown, who had digitized the Traveling Mixologists' recipe collection from 1934 as early as the 1990s, and the Hamburg restaurateur and bartender Jörg Meyer allegedly came across the original gin recipe independently of each other. In 2009 the mix books were reissued.
preparation
Today a Cosmopolitan is usually mixed according to a modern recipe, for example from 4 cl vodka with lemon aroma, 1.5 cl Triple Sec (orange liqueur), 1.5 cl lime juice and 3 cl cranberry juice , shaken with ice in a cocktail shaker and straight up “, Without ice, strained into a cocktail glass (Martinikelch, Cocktailspitz) and decorated with a wedge of lime. In this form, the Cosmopolitan is one of the Official IBA Cocktails , the official drinks of the International Bartenders Association in the “Contemporary Classics” category. If cranberry juice or nectar is not available, cranberry juice or pomegranate juice can also be used. The main purpose of the cranberry juice is to give the cocktail a light pink color; it only plays a subordinate role in terms of taste.
For an original Cosmopolitan, based on the recipe from 1934, Stephan Hinz recommends 4.5 cl gin, 1.5 cl Cointreau, 2 cl lemon juice and 3/4 cl raspberry syrup, all shaken on ice and double-strained in a cocktail bowl .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ American Traveling Mixologists: Traveling Mixologists: Pioneers of Mixing Gin at Elite Bars 1903–1933. A tribute to Charles C. Mueller, Al Hoope Senior, AV Guzman, James Cunningham . Trinity Press, New York 1934, p. 49. Translation of the recipe by the user: Mangomix taking into account the quantities and illustrations at the beginning of the book (1 jigger = 1.5 oz ≈ 4.5 cl).
- ↑ a b double page with the original recipe (English) from 1934 by Jörg Meyer on flickr published in November 2006, accessed on January 27, 2015.
- ↑ a b Stephan Hinz : Cocktail Art - The Future of the Bar . Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7716-4553-3 , p. 292f.
- ↑ a b c d e Anistatia Miller, Jared Brown (Ed.): Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars 1903-1933 by American Traveling Mixologists. The Complete and Annotated Edition: Gins, Cognac Brandy, Rums, Irish & Scotch Whiskeys, Rye & Bourbon Whiskeys, Liqueurs & Cordials, Wines, annotated by Myles Davies. Expanded reprint of the 1934 editions. Mixellany, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821074-3-0 .
- ^ A b Gary Regan: The Birth of the Pinks . In: Jared Brown (Ed.): The Journal of the American Cocktail . Vol. 2, New York 2006, pp. 65-72. The article is published in extracts on www.ardentspirits.com, newsletter of October 7, 2006 (English) , accessed on January 27, 2015.
- ↑ The Cosmopolitan, Sex and the City, article from May 24, 2008 at www.barmixmaster.com , accessed January 27, 2015.
- ^ Cosmopolitan , official recipe of the International Bartenders Association , accessed January 27, 2015.