Booster Cocktail
Brandy and egg white from the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book — the pre-Prohibition egg-enrichment technique preserved by American bartenders at London's Savoy Hotel.
- 2 ozcognac
- ½ ozorange curacao
- 1 wholeegg white
- Grated nutmeggarnish
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The Booster Cocktail is one of hundreds of recipes immortalized in The Savoy Cocktail Book, published in 1930 by Harry Craddock — head bartender of the American Bar at London's Savoy Hotel. Craddock's book remains the definitive record of cocktail making between the two world wars, when American bartenders who had fled Prohibition flocked to London's premier hotel bars. The Booster is a brandy-based drink incorporating egg white, which produces the silky, frothy texture characteristic of pre-Prohibition craft. This style of cocktail, once common before the temperance movement stifled American bartending, has been enthusiastically recovered by the modern craft cocktail movement. The Savoy Cocktail Book has been in continuous print since 1930 and remains one of the most cited references in contemporary bartending, preserving recipes that might otherwise have been lost entirely.
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