Between The Sheets No.2 (brandy + gin + triple sec)
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a nick & nora glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
Method
- 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- 5 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
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Flavour profile
25.9% alc./vol. · 1.5 standard drinks · 162 calories
History
While the Between the Sheets No.3 (brandy and light rum) is often linked to this cocktail's name, the first two versions, much like The Godfather films, may be more deserving of praise.
In his 1939 The Gentleman's Companion (Volume II), the globetrotting drinks writer, Charles H. Baker, recounts an afternoon escaping "Arab-Jewish riots... in Christianity's own heart city." Baker found respite in the "almost Egyptian-looking sanctum" of the luxurious King David Hotel where he enjoyed a Between the Sheets made by a bartender named Weber and copied the recipe from his bar book. Weber's Between the Sheets recipe calls for equal parts "cognac, Cointreau, dry gin and lemon juice," and Baker says, "Like the American Side Car, and other truly worthwhile cocktails this invention is totally sound, and is already quite famous throughout the Near East." Tellingly, at the back of his book, where he talks about ingredients, for Cointreau, he says, "it is one of the six favourite liqueurs of the world, but is indicated in several very important cocktails like between the sheets."