Thursday, December 31, 2009

Queen Adelaide Club Brandy Crusta

Serves 14 glasses
2x 850ml orange juice
1 lemon
350ml brandy
14 cherries
90ml white Curaçao
60g caster sugar

Method: Put orange juice, brandy and white Curaçao into a jug, stir well. Pour into a bottle (an empty soda bottle will do) and keep in the fridge (This will keep in the fridge up to two weeks there will be no need to use ice as it will only water the cocktail down). Rub the rim of the glass with a wedge of lemon and gently dip the rim into caster sugar. Put a slit in the cherry and place it on the edge of the glass.

Source: contributed by Barry Thistleton, Head Waiter 2009, in A Taste of History Behind the Green Door 1909-2009, compiled for the Centenary of the Queen Adelaide Club (Adelaide: The Queen Adelaide Club, 2009; "not for sale to the public"), p.34.
"A BIRD IN THE BUSH IS WORTH TWO IN THE TOWN."