About this Cocktail

Type: Martini Cocktails

If you’re wondering if you read the name of this cocktail correctly, don’t worry.

This excellent cocktail was first published in David A. Embury’s ‘Fine Art of Mixing Cocktails’ in 1948. In his own words, “This cocktail is supposed to have been a speciality of the elder Morgan of the House of Morgan, which goes to prove as a bartender he was an excellent banker”.

Difficult to say if anyone drinks this cocktail at JP Morgan these days, but you should definitely give it a try.

The overproof rum, Chartreuse, Grand Marnier and Angostura bitters combine well to produce a refreshing cocktail with lots of depth.

Contributor: Book of Cocktails

How to Make it

Ingredients

1 shot Jonge Genever

3/4 shot Chartreuse Liqueur (Yellow)

3/4 shot Rum (Overproof White)

1/4 shot Grand Marnier

3/4 shot Sugar Syrup

1 shot Mineral Water (Chilled)

1/4 shot Angostura Bitters

1/4 fresh Egg White

Garnishes

1 wedge Pineapple

Choice of Cocktail Glass

Martini Glass

Detailed Method

Combine all ingredients in your shaker. Shake with ice for a few seconds, before fine straining into a chilled Martini glass.

Add a wedge of pineapple on the rim to serve.

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Re: Basis

by Book of Cocktails

on 23 Dec 2010

@ Parker
Wow thanks very much for posting these details! Great insight into the history of this delicious cocktail.

 

Basis

by Parker Paulin

on 23 Dec 2010

“J. Pierpont Morgan, the first, joined The Union League Club in 1873 and served a term on the Executive Committee. He is remembered for his creation of a gigantic loan of gold to the Government in the crisis of 1895 – and for the mysterious “Morgan’s Mazoozulum Cocktail.” Only Morgan knew the whole secret of its concoction. The Union League Club bartender was permitted to mix the basic ingredients. Then he turned his back while the inventor applied the finishing touches “…those who have tasted this ambrosia compare its flavor to the first caress of a young love and its effect to the wallop of an Old Man Kangaroo,” says Will Irwin reverently. In later years Morgan gravitated more toward the Metropolitan Club but he remained a Union League member until his death in 1913. The secret of the Mazoozulum died with him.” – Balmer, Edwin. Highlights of History 1863-1963. New York: The Union League Club, 1963. (based largely on Irwin, Will and Earl Chapin May & Joseph Hotchkiss. The History of The Union League Club of New York. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1952.)

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