#73 Cocktail: Chanticleer

     Here we have a drink that goes back a couple of decades, 80 years to be precise and is named after Edmond Rostand’s play Chanticler. The recipe was first mentioned in the Old Waldorf-Astoria bar book and is a great pre-dinner cocktail for anybody with a love for the dry of gin and vermouth and the sweetness of the Triple Sec.        Adapted from a pre-Prohibition era drink of the same name, the original recipe called for orange-flavored gin and the white of an egg. I reformulated the Chanticleer using triple sec for the orange flavor and dropping the egg white altogether. The word, chanticleer is French for rooster and at the old Waldorf-Astoria bar, the drink was served with 'a Cock'€™s Comb, if desired"

1 ounce Gin

1 1/2 ounce dry vermouth

1/2 ounce triple sec