Name: Fancy Brandy, Gin and Whiskey Cocktails
Ingredients: 1 dash of syrup; 1 dash of Angostura bitters; 1 dash of Curacao; 100 ml brandy or gin or whiskey; ice

Why it works: Syrup and brandy work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 561 recipes. The science ↓

Fancy Brandy, Gin and Whiskey Cocktails

Ingredients

Directions

Combine syrup, Angostura bitters, Curacao, and brandy (or gin or whiskey) in a shaker with ice.
Shake well and strain into a glass.
Twist a piece of lemon peel over the drink 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.

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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.

Syrup + brandytop 22% of all pairs

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Cooked together561 recipes

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What each ingredient does

Brandy, gin or whiskey: Provides the spirit base that gives the drink its main body and alcoholic strength.
Curacao: Adds orange-flavoured sweetness and aroma that rounds out the spirit.
Syrup: Adds sweetness that balances the strength of the spirit and the bitterness of the bitters.
Angostura bitters: Adds concentrated aromatic spice and bitterness that gives depth to the drink.

“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.