Brandy Float
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a pony glass with brandy.
Place a whiskey glass over the pony glass filled with brandy.
Carefully withdraw the pony glass, allowing the brandy to float on top of the water.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Brandy
- Forms the floating top layer and provides the drink's main flavour.
- Water
- Forms the dense bottom layer that the brandy floats on top of.
The step that matters
Carefully withdraw the pony glass. Brandy is less dense than water, so it floats, but pulling the pony glass out too quickly or tilting it can let the liquids mix and blur the layers.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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