cold Duck
The cold duck is an alcohol-containing punch that consists essentially of wine and sparkling wine . For flavoring, lemons without an outer shell are usually added , but also lemon juice, lemon balm , vanilla or vanilla sugar . The taste can also be rounded off with a little sugar . The preparation is quite simple. The cold duck is cooled with ice cubes and served cold. Since the cold duck is prepared without spirits , it is a relatively easily digestible punch.
Also known as a cold duck, a glass carafe with a beak-like pouring spout, a silver-plated mount and a glass insert, usually in the form of a cylinder , is filled with ice cubes. The insert can easily be removed and filled with new ice. This prevents the punch from being watered down by the melting of the ice cubes after a short time.
invention
Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony , the last Archbishop and Elector of Trier , is said to have invented the drink. After a meal on the terrace of the Koblenz Castle, instead of the usual hot mocha, he wished a “cold end” and ordered a bottle of Moselle wine , Rhine wine and champagne to be poured together and seasoned with a lemon and lemon balm.
origin of the name
The drink was served after the meal as an alternative to hot mocha and was therefore called the cold end . By corrupting it , it became cold duck .
Cold Duck
Harold Borgman, the owner of the Pontchartrain Wine Cellars in Detroit , brought the cold duck to the USA in 1937 under the translation Cold Duck . He replaced the white wine with Californian red wine . Eddie Harris called one of his pieces Cold Duck Time . It became the jazz standard .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The visit of the cold duck. In: Cornelius and Fabian Lange, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, faz.net. July 19, 2010, accessed April 1, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Do you know the cold duck? In: Jürg Zbinden, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, bellevue.nzz.ch. July 15, 2018, accessed April 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Wine press (5): Back to the punch! on rhein-zeitung.de, accessed on March 11, 2010.