Harvard
4.5 51 ratings
Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a coupe glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
Method
- 3 STIR first 4 ingredients with ice.
- 4 STRAIN into chilled glass.
- 5 TOP with soda.
Garnish
- 6 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
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Flavour profile
18.6% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 176 calories
History
An approachable take on a classic. Dry and herbal, this makes a great apéritif.
This recipe remains true to the earliest known mention of the cocktail found in George J. Kappeler's 1895 publication, Modern American Drinks – How to Mix and Serve All Kinds of Cups and Drinks. In his 1931 book, Old Waldorf Bar Days, Albert Stevens Crockett wrote regarding this drink, "Named after a school for young men, whose site is contiguous to the Charles River, in a suburb of Boston. Alumni who drunk it sometimes lost the 'Harvard accent'." The Harvard Cocktail recipe is listed as: One dash gum-syrup, three dashes Angostura bitters, half-jigger Italian vermouth, half-jigger brandy in half a mixing-glass of fine ice. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass, fill up with seltzer. The history of the Manhattan cocktail is also noted.
Also known as New Orleans Manhattan · Created by George Kappeler