Transcript: Sidecar

Cocktails on the Fly
Episode “Side Car”

Alberta Straub: Hi, on this flight we are going to make a sidecar. This is one of the quintessential classic drinks, simple, tasty, tangy, delicious, old school baby. It is a good drink. Let’s do t. It is made with cognac ,cointreau, and fresh lemon. And edge your glass with sugar, so simple and straight forward.
It was supposedly created by a world war one army captain, who used to arrive in a ramshackle motorcycle with his sidecar to the French bistro. And so they kind of created it there, so they named it and dubbed it the sidecar. So there are two ways of making it supposedly. There is the French school and the British school.
The French school calls for equal parts lemon juice, cognac, and cointreau. And the British school calls for a little bit more alcohol. And that is the way flighty likes to make it, so let’s do it. Okay, so we are going to put in two ounces of cognac, British school all the way. There we go. Respect to my grandma, cheers.
And then one ounce of cointreau, waa, now this is a really fine Crusoe, it is made from bitter oranges from the Dutch west island of Crusoe. It is supposed to have bitter peels and it also had got cognac base which makes it extra tangy. Good, nice strong flavor, much better than using a triple sec. So I recommend using this or either grand Marnier when you’re making your sidecar.
And then get your hand press, and you want to use fresh citrus for this. Fresh squeezed okay? You want about an ounce of the citrus. That was a nice juicy lemon but I think I am going to put just a tiny squeeze more. Flighty thinks, there is ounce. Ok, great. So I am going o put some ice in here.
And we are going to shake his baby up okay? Aaah, okay it is nice and cold you can see the ice is starting to form on the outside of the mixing tin. So it is ready to go. So then you have got your glass chilling. I want it chilling the whole time you are mixing the drink. So you have a nice cool glass, and then you are going to run a lemon on the edge. Make sure that you don’t get it too drippy. You can see that you got a little water dripping out so you want to pour that out, because you don’t want your sugar to clump.
And then there we go do the edging, there we go, ok. And then we are ready to pour our cocktail in. And a little bit of lemon peel. Cheers, this cocktail ,British style. Delicious! That’s right baby, the sidecar, cheers.

Sidecar:
In a mixing glass add;
1. 2oz. of cognac
2. 1oz. of Cointreau
3. 1oz. of lemon juice
4. Add ice and shake
5. Edge chilled cocktail glass with sugar
6. Strain into the glass
7. Garnish with lemon peel
8. Delicious