Let's unravel the enigma that is the East India Cocktail. 🍹🍍
What’s more, the pedigree is perfectly established, and everyone knows it. We don’t need to wade through folklore or sift among competing origin claims: The East India Cocktail was invented by Harry Johnson in 1882 and printed in his . It is named, fortunately, not for the farcically rapacious East India Trading Company which had been dissolved eight years prior, but for being “a favorite of the English living in different parts of East India.
Johnson’s 1882 recipe calls for a healthy pour of brandy, very small amounts of raspberry syrup and “red” Curaçao, and even smaller amounts of bitters and maraschino liqueur. Which all seems clear enough, except for that eight years later, in the 1890 edition of this same book, Johnson took out the raspberry and replaced with pineapple syrup. While
might sub raspberry for, say, pomegranate, to my and everyone else’s ear, pineapple makes a fundamentally different cocktail. Fair enough—many people think of the raspberry and pineapple versions as East India Cocktails No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.
It’s enough to make you need a drink; fortunately, we have one of those for you. About half of the above recipes are pretty good, but you can’t just cut ingredients from this and expect it to still sing. It absolutely requires the floral personality of the maraschino and the roundness of the Curaçao, and while it’s good as a sour, it’s better as a seductive, faintly tropical
sipper. And after trying them all, we defer to the originator Mr. Johnson, who we believe got it right on his second attempt. It’s the type of subtle revisionism we can get behind.
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