How to make a BRONX cocktail with LELE | COCKTAIL with GIN
Channel: Cocktails with Lele
Date: 2020-08-27

INGREDIENTS:
45ml Gin
20ml Sweet Vermouth
15ml Dry Vermouth
30ml Orange Juice

The accepted history of the Bronx begins in the Big Brass Rail bar inside New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1906. Like most stories involving alcohol, the cocktail was the result of a dare. Barman and possible Guys and Dolls character Johnnie Solon whipped it up after a customer challenged him to create a new cocktail on the fly.

Rising to the challenge, Solon decided to do a riff on the Duplex — a perfect martini with orange bitters — by swapping the bitters for orange juice, and reducing the vermouth ratios down to a splash each. The result, which he called a “Bronx” after the zoo he had visited the day before, was a hit. As juice-based cocktails rose in popularity during Prohibition, when they were used to mask the flavor of bootleg booze, the Bronx became a standout. By mid-century, however, the cocktail had mostly faded into obscurity as vodka supplanted gin as the clear spirit of choice.
Like all cocktails of a certain age, the Bronx’s origins are somewhat contested. Some evidence suggests it was the creation of Philadelphia bartender Joseph S. Sormani in 1905. Sormani’s New York Times obituary even credits him as the cocktail’s creator. The recipe cited, however, omits dry vermouth, which technically makes it an Orange Blossom.

Adding to the confusion, both Henry Craddock and William Boothby further cloud the history of the Bronx in their respective cocktail manuals. Craddock presents three different versions. Boothby, meanwhile, credits one Billy Malloy from Pittsburgh with a recipe that keeps the orange bitters and cuts the OJ down to just a spoonful.

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