Make Mine a Double

posted by Hilary on Apr 5

Well with me previously writing about a Sidecar recipe, it got me thinking, where does the origin of the Fabulous Sidecar come from. Well to set the record straight to begin with what goes into a side car.

One shot Cointreau
One shot Grand Marnier
One shot of triple sec
Splash of lemon
Serve chilled and the glass rim dipped in sugar.

So where does it come from? Thisis a little unclear but it seems to point as way back as the First World War from either London and Paris. It started out as just equal parts Cognac, Cointreau, and lemon juice, now known as “the French school”. Later, an “English school” of Sidecars emerged, called for two Cognac and one each Cointreau and lemon juice. The sugaring the rim on a Sidecar glass came about in the 1934. But way call it a side car? Well by looking into this I have to reluctantly believe it was invented in France. Harry’s Bar in Paris is generally credited with inventing the Sidecar for a patron who often rode in the sidecar of a motorcycle.