Talk:Sidecar (cocktail)
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The recipe for the Sidecar cocktail currently listed is a more common form encountered today. However, it would be nice to have the original recipe and some background to it.
3/10 Cointreau 6/10 Remmy Martin Cognac 1/10 Lemon Juice
Shake well with ice and serve. No garnish is necessary.
This is the original recipe, by Harry Mc Halone bartender at the Harry's bar of Paris. It is usually quite difficutl to truly pin-point the origination of a cocktail, as the ages tend to come up not only with half a million variations to the recipe, but variations of the origination. However, the Harry's Bar of Paris still exists to this day, and the interior has not changed since it was first started. Common mythology has it that Harry originally invented the cocktail for a particular captain riding a sidecar who wanted a drink to warm up to before dinner. However, no one is entirely sure if the captain was really the first one to taste the drink.
- I believe this information is included now.
- Philvarner 22:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Question about the "other" use of the term "sidecar": At the bottom of this page, there is a link to a picture of a cocktail "with a sidecar". In fact, the "sidecar" pictured is simply the excess from the drink in the martini glass, not a sidecar cocktail, as described in the article. I have heard people call such things sidecars before--the bartender pours the excess from any old cocktail shaker into a small glass--but I suspect this usage of the term results from these people assuming that that is what's meant by "sidecar". It makes sense, but I imagine the standard usage is to denote the specific brandy-based drink described above. Does anyone know if this new, apparently unrelated, usage of the word "sidecar" is gaining popularity? Or are the picture and the people who use the term "sidecar" in that way simply mistaken and uninformed?
- Maybe that is another usage of sidecar, but that photo has been removed. It should not be in this article. If an article on that is warrented, it should be under another disambig like Sidecar(trash after making other drinks)
- Philvarner 22:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
