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Sidecar Cocktail

Here's how you make Sidecar Cocktail
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  • Servings: 1
  • Prep: 3m
  • Cook: 0m
    • The following recipe serves 1 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 whole lemon
  • Superfine sugar
  • 3 ounces cognac
  • 1 ounce Cointreau (or triple sec)
  • 2 lemon slices
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Juice the lemon, reserving the rinds. Rub the rims of two stemmed cocktail glasses with the pulp side of the lemon rind, then dip moistened rims into a saucer of sugar.

  • Step 2: Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, add reserved lemon juice, cognac, and Cointreau, then shake for 25 seconds until frosty.

  • Step 3: Strain into the sugar-rimmed glasses and garnish each with a thin slice of lemon.

Tips & Variations

Don't forget the following tips and variations.
  • Cocktail shaker

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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