The Bobby Burns is a whisky
cocktail
A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink. Most commonly, cocktails are either a combination of spirits, or one or more spirits mixed with other ingredients such as tonic water, fruit juice, flavored syrup, or cream. Cocktails vary widely across ...
composed of
scotch
Scotch most commonly refers to:
* Scotch (adjective), a largely obsolescent adjective meaning "of or from Scotland"
**Scotch, old-fashioned name for the indigenous languages of the Scottish people:
***Scots language ("Broad Scotch")
*** Scottish G ...
,
vermouth and
Bénédictine liqueur. It is served in a 4.5 US fl oz
cocktail glass.
The drink is named for
Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, but is not considered a national drink in the way the
Rusty Nail is.
History
The original recipe comes from the 1900 edition of ''Fancy Drinks'', published by Bishop & Babcock where it is called the "Baby Burns". The "Robert Burns" name appears in the 1908 ''Jack's Manual'' and 1914 ''Drinks'' made with
Irish whiskey, vermouth and
absinthe
Absinthe (, ) is an anise-flavoured spirit derived from several plants, including the flowers and leaves of ''Artemisia absinthium'' ("grand wormwood"), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs. Historical ...
. In later publications it starts to be called by the more informal "Bobby Burns" name, with the original Irish whiskey recipe appearing in ''Recipes for Mixed Drinks'' (1917). The 1948 recipe from ''The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks'' replaced the Bénédictine with
Drambuie (Scotch whisky) and
bitters.
See also
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List of cocktails
A cocktail is a mixed drink typically made with a distilled liquor (such as arrack, brandy, cachaça, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, or whiskey) as its base ingredient that is then mixed with other ingredients or garnishments. Sweetened liqueurs, w ...
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References
Cocktails with Scotch whisky
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