Brandy Crusta

The Brandy Crusta is a Cocktail which consists of Brandy, Curacao, Sugar, Bitters, and Fresh Lemon Juice.

Earliest Recipe

Jerry Thomas (1862)

• Take 3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup (Sugar Syrup)
• 1 dash of Boker's bitters.
• 1 wine-glass of Brandy (Cognac)
• 2 dashes of Curacoa. (Curacao)
• 1 dash Lemon Juice.

Before mixing the above ingredients, prepare a cocktail glass as follows: Rub a sliced lemon around the rim of the glass, and dip it in pulverized white sugar, so that the sugar will adhere to the edge of the glass. Pare half a lemon the same as you would an apple (all in one piece) so that the paring will fit in the wine-glass, as shown in the cut. Put the above ingredients into a small whiskey glass filled one-third full of shaved ice, shake up well and strain the liquid into the cocktail glass prepared as above directed.

Other Recipes

Recipe#1: Cocktaildb.com

• Stir in mixing glass with ice & strain
• 1 1/2 oz brandy
• 1/4 oz maraschino liqueur
• 1 dash aromatic bitters
• 1/4 oz fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 oz orange curacao
• Insert 1 entire lemon rind in glass
• Strain into prepared glass
• Serve in a cocktail glass