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Holland Cocktail

The Holland Cocktail recipe appears in: Modern American Drinks. New York; George Kappeler, 1895

HOLLAND COCKTAIL

Have the folowwing items:

Service-ware

• 4½ fl-oz. glass Cocktail goblet
   (examples: Anchor-Hocking 2945 or Libbey 3770)
• 4-inch beverage napkin

Tools

• cuting board
• paring knife
• glass mixing pitcher
   (Yarai™ or similar)
• jigger-and-pony measure
   [2 fl-oz. by 1 fl-oz. / ~60 ml. by ~30 ml.]
• 3-to-1 split pony
   [¾ fl-oz. by ¼ fl-oz. / ~22.5 ml. by ~7.5 ml.]
• ice scoop
• stirrer
   (metal chopstick - or long, narrow spoon)
• Hawthorne strainer

Ingredients

• lemon (whole, for zest-cutting)
   (Citrus limon: Eureka or Santa Theresa)
• orange bitters
   : house-blend orange bitters
• 50° Brix simple syrup
• old-style genever (oude, zeer oude, or geript)
    #1: Boomsma™ Oude;
    #2: Rutte™ Oude;
    #3: Ransom™ "Old Tom Gin" [sic]
• method ice (also called 'cracked ice')
   (half the size of service ice)
  

Instructions

1. Chill the cocktail goblet.
2. Cut a ~1” wide and ~3” long strip of lemon zest with minimal pith and reserve it.
3. Set the mixing pitcher in the work area. Into it goes:
• • orange bitters — 2 dashes
   [1 scruplespoonfull / ¼ tsp. / ~1.25 ml.]
• • simple syrup — ¼ ponyfull
   [¼ fl-oz. / ~7.5 ml.]
• • old-style genever — 1 jiggerfull
   [2 poniesfull / 2 fl-oz. / ~60 ml.]
4. Set the chilled, empty goblet in the work area.
5. Take the mixing pitcher to the ice. Into it is added:
• • method ice — ⅔ fill
6. Set the mixing pitcher back in the work area.
7. Smoothly stir the ingredients for at least thirty seconds to mix and chill-dilute without letting aeration bruise the velvet of the liquor.
8. Fit the Hawthorne strainer into the mixing pitcher and strain the drink through the strainer into the goblet.
9. Garnish the drink with:
• • lemon zest (reserved in step #2) — 1 strip
   (twisted zest-side-down over the drink, rubbed on the rim, and put into the drink).
10. Serve the drink on the napkin.