![]() Strain into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a maraschino cherry. Stir for about 20 seconds, adding more ice if the ice becomes submerged. To summarize: In a cocktail shaker 3/4 full of ice, combine 1 jigger gin and ½ ounce each of sweet vermouth and green Chartreuse. Watch master “mixstress” Alberta Straub demonstrate professional techniques for stirring your cocktail to chilled perfection. Add half an ounce of Green Chartreuse to your Sweet Martini and you’ve got what is known as a Bijou cocktail. A Sweet Martini merely substitutes Italian vermouth for French vermouth, and, consistently enough, substitutes a sweet maraschino cherry for the dry olive as a garnish. The preparation of the cocktail is simple: mix the ingredients together with ice to mix Gin, Vermouth and Chartreuse and pour into a Nick & Nora glass. Since a drink as simple and satisfying as the Dry Martini was just too good to leave well enough alone, there have appeared through the decades literally hundreds of recipes that were, in effect, Martinis with a dash of this or that added. Ingredients Serving: 1 1 ounce gin 1 ounce sweet vermouth 3/4 ounce green Chartreuse 1 dash orange bitters Garnish: brandied cherry (preferably Luxardo) Directions Add all ingredients to a mixing glass. ![]() ![]() Recipe guides and such still advise you to make your Martini with 1 part Vermouth and 2 parts gin, but the average Martini drinker appreciates the drier flavor of a 3-to-1 ratio. 1 drop of orange bitters More humane doses 4 cl of gin 3 cl of sweet vermouth 1.5 cl of green Chartreuse 1 drop of orange bitters How to make the Bijou cocktail It is prepared very simply in the mixing glass with ice, stirring gently to mix the ingredients well. The Bijou cocktail, according to Wikipedia, is called this because it combines the colors of three jewels: gin for diamond, vermouth for ruby, and chartreuse for emerald and dates back to the 1890’s. The Dry Martini is the world’s leading appetizer with a spirits base.
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