Claret Cup (per glass)

Classic · Multiple · Highball glass

From Modern American Drinks by George J. Kappeler (1900). Original recipe: "Dissolve in a long thin bar-glass one teaspoonful fine sugar, three dashes lemon-juice and two dashes orange curaçoa in a little water; add one lump of ice, two jiggers claret, one slice orange, one small piece of cucumber-rind. Mix and fill glass with seltzer."

GlassHighball glass
GarnishNone
ABV0%
Categoryprohibition
Flavorclassic, pre-prohibition, kappeler-1900

Ingredients

  • Sugar0.16 tsp
  • lemon-juice3 dashes
  • orange curaçoa in a little water2 dashes
  • orange1 slice

Method

  1. Add sugar, lemon-juice, orange curaçoa in a little water, and orange to mixing glass with ice
  2. Stir until well chilled
  3. Strain into chilled highball glass