Cocktail Bitters
by Darcy O'Neil :: [Bitters]
This is a pseudo generic recipe for a typical cocktail bitters taken from the book "The Art of blending and compounding liquors and wines" by Joseph Fleischman.
Cocktail Bitters Recipe:
- Spirits
- 60 litre
- Bitter Orange Peel
- 4 lbs
- Cinnamon Bark
- 4 lbs
- Cudbear*
- 2 lbs
- Canalles
- ½ lbs
- Quassia Chips
- ¼ lbs
- Gential Root
- ¼ lbs
- Grains of Paradise
- ¼ lbs
- Cloves
- 2 oz
- Colocynthin**
- 2 oz
Instructions
Bruise the spices and macerate in the alcohol for 10 days. Strain and filter before bottling.
Notes:
* A purplish-red dye derived from certain lichens ** Colocynthin is a type of bitter melon.
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