Golden Dream

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Golden Dream in a martini glass

The Golden Dream is an alcoholic short drink that to the dessert cocktails heard and usually as a digestif is drunk after eating. It consists of Galliano , Triple Sec Curaçao (orange liqueur), orange juice and cream .

history

The Golden Dream is one of the very few internationally known cocktails whose origin is undisputed and verifiable, as it emerged as the winning drink in a mixing competition. The bartender Le Roy S. Sharon (or Charon) from Los Angeles won the "USA (West Coast) Cocktail Competition" in 1959. In the competition sponsored by the United Kingdom Bartender's Guild (UKBG), he beat 62 other bartenders with his "Golden Dream", which is made from 1  oz. Galliano and 1 ⁄ 2  oz each . Cointreau (a Triple Sec orange liqueur), orange juice, whipped cream and shaved ice , and won US $ 1,000 and a trip to London . The Golden Dream is also mentioned in a newspaper note from 1962 when Leroy Charon [sic!], Bartender in Marineland, California, won another first prize, this time in a California Bartender's Guild competition , to compete for the World Cocktail Championship qualified by the International Bartenders Association , which took place in Hamburg in 1962. In 1960 the UKBG published the recipe of the Golden Dream in its publication The UKBG Guide to Drinks in the chapter Prize-Winning Cocktails , but with a reduced amount of Galliano compared to the newspaper report, i.e. now equal proportions of all ingredients:

“USA (West Coast) Cocktail Competition, 1959 'Golden Dream' Le Roy Charon [sic!] - 25% Galliano, 25% Cointreau, 25% Orange Juice, 25% Cream. Shake."

“USA (West Coast) cocktail competition, 1959 'Golden Dream' Le Roy Charon - 25% Galliano, 25% Cointreau, 25% orange juice, 25% cream. Shake."

- United Kingdom Bartenders' Guild: The UKBG Guide to Drinks (1960)

The cocktail bears a certain resemblance to the Golden Cadillac , which was also created in the 1950s and whose basic recipe consists of Galliano, white (clear) cocoa liqueur and cream, but is now often supplemented with orange juice. Both cocktails were very popular in the 1960s with the spread of the Italian liqueur Galliano in the United States . The Golden Dream was soon to be found in German-language recipe books. Both the lexicon of the bar by Erich Bolsmann , published for the first time in 1974, and the hand lexicon of drinks from Rudolf Trauner Verlag refer to Leroy Sharon and the competition of 1959 and name equal proportions of the four ingredients, which are always shaken in the shaker and without ice in a cocktail glass to be strained ; the same recipe appears in Schmoeckel (1991) and Roth / Bernasconi (2002), where the name of the bartender is spelled “Le Roy Chanon” and “Roy Shanon”, respectively, differently from the sources mentioned above.

The International Bartenders Association (IBA) had the Golden Dream as an after-dinner cocktail in their list of Official Cocktails until 2011 , and since 2011 it has been in the Contemporary Classics category .

preparation

The IBA recipe consists of 2  cl Galliano , Triple Sec Curaçao and orange juice and 1 cl cream. All ingredients are shaken in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and then strained into a pre-chilled martini glass . The mixing ratios are often changed in different versions, for example to 1 cl Galliano, 3 cl Triple Sec Curaçao, 4 cl orange juice and 3 cl cream. Instead of cream, you can also use an appropriate amount of vanilla ice cream .

The name “Galliano” in the ingredients is not clear, however, as several very different liqueurs are sold under the brand today . Yellow Galliano is always used for the Golden Dream, but its recipe has also been changed several times over the decades and adapted to the respective markets. Since 2010, yellow Galliano has been sold internationally in the Vanilla and L'Autentico variants , which differ greatly in taste. The version allegedly approximating the original recipe, L'Autentico, is a herbal liqueur with a clear aniseed note, which for a long time was only sold in its country of origin, Italy. In other markets, including Germany, until 2008 only a much milder vanilla liqueur was offered under the name Galliano Smooth Vanilla . How the Galliano tasted that Leroy Sharon (Charon) had available in 1959 is not documented.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Newspaper note New Cocktail Wins Contest in the Lakeland Ledger ( Lakeland (Florida) ) of November 17, 1959, p. 2 (English).
  2. ↑ a b United Kingdom Bartenders' Guild: The UKBG Guide to Drinks. 3rd edition 1960, p. 95.
  3. ↑ Newspaper note 'Golden Amber' Wins Bartender Cash and Trip (PDF) ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in The Press ( Torrance , Calif.) June 13, 1962, pp. C-6. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.torranceca.gov
  4. ↑ Erich Bolsmann: Lexikon der Bar. 8th edition, Matthaes Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87516-601-9 , recipe entry "Golden Dream".
  5. ↑ Handlexikon der Getränke, Vol. 1 - Bar, mixed drinks, spirits. Rudolf Trauner Verlag, 2nd edition 1986, ISBN 3 85320 335 3 , p. 178.
  6. ↑ Peter Schmoeckel: Cocktail classics. Mosaik Verlag (Bertelsmann), Munich 1991, ISBN 3-576-10012-1 , p. 37.
  7. ^ Peter Roth, Carlo Bernasconi: The Mix Book of the Century. Falken Verlag (Random House), Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8068-7426-3 , p. 204.
  8. ↑ IBA Official Cocktails. In: Official Cocktails. International Bartenders Association , archived from the original on November 24, 2010 ; accessed on May 21, 2015 (English).
  9. ↑ a b IBA Official Cocktails (in English) List of the official IBA cocktails with recipes, accessed on May 21, 2015.
  10. ↑ Alessandra Redies: Cocktails: Classics and brand new recipes with and without alcohol , Gräfe and Unzer Verlag GmbH, 2007, ISBN 978-3833806872 , p. 106.