Slightly Sour Cocktail

• 1 ½ oz. Cognac (or Brandy)
• 1 oz. Triple Sec
• ½ oz. Lemon Juice
• Lemon Twist
• Sugar to rim glass.

Cocktail Glass

Sweet start with a lemon transition and smooth brandy/cognac finish.

Pour ingredients into an iced shaker and shake for 10 seconds. Used squeezed lemon to rim the edge of an iced cocktail glass by cutting a slice and sliding the glass edge through it in a circular fashion. Coat the edge of the glass in sugar, sticking it to the lemon juice rimming; garnish with lemon twist and serve.

The exact origin of the Sidecar is unclear, but it is thought to have been invented around the end of World War I in either London or Paris. The first recipes for the Sidecar appear in 1922, in Harry MacElhone's Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails and Robert Vermeire's Cocktails and How to Mix Them. It is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, (1948) ¹⁾.