Sidecar (cocktail)
The sidecar is a classic cocktail made from brandy , Cointreau and lemon juice , which David A. Embury counts as one of his six basic cocktails in his standard work The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948). It is considered a modification of the brandy daisy made from brandy, chartreuse and lemon juice and, since the first recipes in writing date from the early 1920s, it was probably invented during the First World War .
preparation
To prepare the sidecar, brandy, Cointreau and lemon juice are shaken with ice in the same quantities or, depending on the recipe, in a significantly different mixing ratio. A french school sidecar is used when the brandy is cognac . An "English school" mentions the "Savoy Cocktail Book" from 1930: here twice the amount of cognac is used. In other versions, you use Armagnac or, instead of the Cointreau, another Triple Sec Curaçao .
Serving sidecars in glasses with a sugar rim ("Sidecar Up") has also been documented since the 1930s at the latest. The glass can be garnished with a piece of lemon or lemon zest.
history
David A. Embury attributes the invention of the sidecar to a US captain in Paris ; the name is said to refer to the soldier's motorcycle team . In contrast, Harry MacElhone (bartender and later owner of the famous New York Bar in Paris) mentions Pat MacGarry from Buck's Club in London as the inventor of the sidecar in the first editions of his book Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails (1922) , the name appears in later editions however no longer on. Robert Vermiere mentions the same name (Cocktails and How to Mix Them , 1922).
Erich Maria Remarque mentions the sidecar in his novel Three Comrades in a Bar Scene , published in 1936 but set in 1928 : “We drank a few glasses. I only have sidecars with lots of lemon. I didn't want to be caught off guard by myself again. "
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Burke: Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes (1934) u. a.
- ↑ Erich Maria Remarque: Three comrades . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2012, ISBN 3-462-30551-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search - electronic edition).