@quixotickingbar: The Forgotten Between the Sheets No. 1 🍸🏴‍☠️🍍 Everyone knows the Between the Sheets… but almost nobody knows there were once two official versions. In 1936, bartender Barney Burke published Burke’s Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes. On a single page, he listed Between the Sheets No. 1 and Between the Sheets No. 2. Same name. Two completely different cocktails. No. 1 combined brandy, dry gin, Curaçao, and lemon juice. No. 2 replaced the gin with rum and the Curaçao with Cointreau—the version that eventually became the modern classic. Why did both exist? Because the Between the Sheets was still evolving. During the 1920s and 1930s, bartenders across Europe were making different versions, and Barney Burke simply documented both recipes as they were being served. History eventually chose the rum version… …but thanks to an old cocktail book, the forgotten original is still waiting to be rediscovered. 🍸 Between the Sheets No. 1 (1936) * 1 oz Brandy (30 ml) * 1 oz Dry Gin (30 ml) * 1 oz Curaçao (30 ml) * 2 dashes Lemon Juice Shake with ice (Burke specifies 25 shakes) and strain into a chilled coupe glass. 🍸 Between the Sheets No. 2 (1936) * 1 oz Brandy (30 ml) * 1 oz Rum (30 ml) * 1 oz Cointreau (30 ml) * 2 dashes Lemon Juice Shake with ice (25 shakes) and strain into a chilled coupe glass. Which one would you try first—No. 1 or No. 2? #CocktailHistory #VintageCocktails #ClassicCocktails #Bartending #QKB

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