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The popularity of the operetta in New York must have helped to promote Rob Roy as a cocktail name. To conclude, a version of a cocktail named Rob Rob appeared before 1873 and takes its name from the 1817 historical novel by Walter Scott rather than the operetta based on that novel which didn't premiere until 1894. Appreciative of the new cocktail, the salesman named it the Rob Roy. The letter describes how his brother was put on the spot by a representative of Usher's to create a cocktail using his blended scotch whisky. The writer is the brother of Henry August Orphal, a bartender at the Duke's House in New Jersey. Selmer Fougner's Along The Wine Trail column. Lowe, 1909Īlso uncovered by David Wondrich, in a 24th March 1941 edition of the New York Sun, is a letter to G.
Stir strain into cocktail glass and serve.
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Lowe's 1909 Drinks : How To Mix And How To Serve (published in London, England) the base spirit question is once again raised by his stipulating apple brandy.
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The Cocktail Book a Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen, 1909 Fill with ice, mix, and strain into a cocktail glass. THREE dashes Angostura bitters two-thirds Scotch whiskey one-third Italian vermouth. The only thing in this 1909 recipe that differs from modern renditions is the olive garnish rather than the modern preference for a cherry. The 1909 edition of the same book (published in London, England) gives an updated recipe which calls for Angostura bitters in place of orange bitters. The Cocktail Book a Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen, 1901 Two dashes orange bitters two-thirds Scotch whiskey one-third Italian vermouth. Just a year after that recipe another Rob Roy, based on scotch whisky and a Manhattan with orange bitters, appears in the anonymously written 1901 The Cocktail Book a Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen published in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass and serve.
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Maloney's 1900 The 20th Century Guide For Mixing Fancy Drinks (published in Chicago, USA), but with lemon juice and other estranged ingredients it is far from the modern-day scotch whiskey-based Sweet Manhattan.įill mixing glass two-thirds full fine ice. The earliest Rob Roy recipe based on scotch whiskey that I've found appears in James C. It's worth noting that the first recipe for a scotch whisky-based Manhattan, which appears in Charlie Paul's American and other Drinks, published 1884 in London, bares no reference to the cocktail also being known as a Rob Roy.įill tumbler with chipped ice put in three or four drops of angostura bitters, ditto of plain syrup and half a liqueur glassful of vermouth, half wine glassful of scotch whiskey stir well with spoon and put a small piece of lemon on top. Sadly, the interview doesn't record what the base spirit was as this earliest known reference and is just the first not to confirm, or even cast doubt as to the original base spirit in a Rob Roy. " The Rob Roy cocktail is made with a little gum syrup, two dashes of Angostura, a few drops of oychette cordial, in a tumbler filled with fine ice, strained." - New York Sun. Barry and this is documented in an interview he gave for the New York Sun 22nd August 1873. It turns out, there was a Rob Roy cocktail created some 20 years earlier by New York bartender, Edward F. Smith and Reginald De Koven" was " clean, frank, manly, bright, and winesome." The same words could have been used to describe the cocktail and before David Wondrich uncovered more about this cocktail then the above was a neat concise origin story.
The New York Times 30th October 1894 review said " the latest work of Harry B. (The Empire State Building occupies the site today.) Hence, it's not a stretch to believe this cocktail was created at the hotel to serve operagoers and that scotch whisky was appropriately swapped for the usual American whisky in the popular cocktail of the day, a Manhattan. Named after the Rob Roy operetta about the Scottish folk hero and outlaw Robert Roy MacGregor, which debuted on Broadway near to where the New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel used to stand.
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