Each week, Class Magazine has a great list of what to drink based on what’s day it is! One of the suggestions was from The Savoy Cocktail Book, which I owe and it’s shamefully under used for FNC. Flicking through it, I came across the Morning Cocktail.

This feels like a 1930’s drink, one that should be drunk from tiny saucer type glasses preferably while bantering with the likes of Cary Grant!

I did make a couple of changes to the listed recipe, Pernod for absinthe because I don’t have any of the latter. I used Cointreau as that’s the form of curaçao/triple sec I have in the cupboard. I’m also lacking absinthe so subbed in Pernod. I’ve assumed that a dash is 2.5ml, except with the orange bitters where I used 2.5ml as two dashes, anymore seemed too much. The measuring for this is all over the place. One of the joys of a 70’s childhood is that float quite happily from Imperial to metric measurements!

Although I’m not sure that I could drink it or anything first thing in the morning, it deserves to be added to the list of ‘anti-fogmatics’ to offer to those that don’t drink Bloody Marys.

The Mid-Morning Cocktail (adapted from The Savoy Cocktail Book)

What

5ml Cointreau

2.5ml orange bitters

5ml maraschino

5ml Pernod

Half an oz brandy

Half an oz French vermouth

Cherry and lemon zest to garnish

How

1) Add ingredients to shaker filled with ice

2) Strain into a chilled cocktail glass

3) Garnish with cherry and zest