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Carroll Gardens
A stirred rye cocktail with Punt e Mes, Amaro Nardini and a spoonful of maraschino.
Go to the recipe ↓The Carroll Gardens is stirred and strained, not built or shaken. Rye leads at 2 oz, and Punt e Mes and Amaro Nardini follow at a half ounce each, so each modifier is a quarter of the rye. Maraschino goes in by the spoon rather than the ounce. The published versions agree on that structure. They differ on the size of the maraschino spoon and on whether the lemon peel stays in the drink.
Imbibe: peel left as garnish
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a cocktail glass.
- Put the rye, Punt e Mes, Amaro Nardini and maraschino in a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir, then strain into the chilled glass.
- Garnish with the lemon peel.
Garnish Lemon peel
- Imbibe measures the maraschino as 1 barspoon. A barspoon is not a fixed unit, so adjust that line by hand when scaling.
- Imbibe does not say whether to express the peel over the drink.
Recipe source: imbibemagazine.com ↗
PUNCH: expressed and discarded peel
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a coupe or cocktail glass.
- Put the rye, sweet vermouth, Nardini amaro and maraschino in a mixing glass.
- Add ice and stir until the drink is chilled.
- Strain into the chilled glass.
- Express a lemon peel over the surface, then discard it.
Garnish Lemon peel, expressed and discarded
- PUNCH lists the vermouth as sweet vermouth and names Punt e Mes as its preference. It also prefers Rittenhouse for the rye and Luxardo for the maraschino.
- PUNCH calls for 1 scant teaspoon of maraschino. A scant measure is approximate, so adjust that line separately when scaling.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Spoon size and the lemon peel
PUNCH and Cocktail Virgin both twist the lemon peel over the drink and discard it, so only the oils stay. Imbibe lists the peel as the garnish and gives no instruction to express or remove it. For the maraschino, Cocktail Virgin uses 1 tsp, PUNCH a scant teaspoon and Imbibe a barspoon. All three keep it a small accent beside the half-ounce modifiers. Cocktail Virgin strains into a coupe, and PUNCH allows a coupe or a cocktail glass. Imbibe specifies only a cocktail glass.