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Bronx Cocktail

A gin-based cocktail with dry gin, French and Italian vermouth, garnished with orange peel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Gin and vermouth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Bronx Cocktail

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cocktail

  1. In a cocktail shaker, combine dry gin, French vermouth, and Italian vermouth.

  2. Fill the shaker with ice and shake well.

  3. Strain the mixture into a glass.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish with a twist of orange peel and serve.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Gin + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Gin + orangetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together158 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Vermouth + orangetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together83 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Dry gin
Provides the spirit base and the main structure and bite of the drink.
French vermouth
Adds dry, herbal aromatic notes and lightens the body of the gin.
Italian vermouth
Adds sweetness and herbal depth that rounds out the dry gin and French vermouth.
Orange peel
Contributes aromatic citrus oils to the nose and flavour of the drink.

The step that matters

Shake well with ice. Shaking chills the drink and dilutes it slightly with meltwater, softening the alcohol's sharpness. Too little shaking leaves the cocktail warm and harsh.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (gin, vermouth):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against gin, vermouth. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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