Need something to brighten a dark winter's evening? Try this cocktail. It's an after-dinner drink conceived in heaven. Pure delight.
2 cl Cointreau
2 dashes of orange bitters
Stir with ice in a mixing glass, and strain into a cocktail glass of your liking.
Sloe gin is a liqueur which is actually a sweetened gin flavoured with sloes, small, bitter plums. As to alcohol, Cointreau is the stronger of the two.
The drink harks back to the Twenties, perhaps even further back. In Harry Craddock's famous The Savoy Cocktail Book from 1930 a dash of absinthe is used instead of the two dashes of orange bitters. I'm not fond of the switch; perhaps you are?
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