Between The Sheets

1 oz Brandy
1 oz White Rum
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz Lemon Juice (fresh)

Chill cocktail glass. Shake all ingredients over ice. Strain into cocktail glass.


Ingredient Profile

Details

Servings 1
Category Short Sour
Family
Structure Sour
Attributes 1920's, Aperitif
Proof 51
Strength 2 standard drinks
Flavors Lemon, Orange
Glass Cocktail Glass
Temperature Cold

Notes

You basically have a Sidecar with rum here. Why add rum? Well the drink came about during Prohibition along with bathtub gin and nasty whiskey made from anything that would ferment. Having uniformly poor ingredients, barmen during the period produced some rather horrid drink recipes. So what's to stop more alcohol getting added to an already strong drink?

While the Sidecar is superior, a Between the Sheets is not that bad. You could do far worse than white rum for a second base spirit. As to where the drink got its erotic name, that remains lost to history.