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Cold Duckling

Recipe information

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Ingredients

1/2 lump sugar
1 lemon
Dash of orange bitters
Chilled white Burgundy
Chilled champagne
Garnish: thin lemon slice

Preparation

  1. Rub lump sugar on the lemon, impregnating the sugar thoroughly with the oil of the rind. Put the sugar in a chilled champagne coupe or champagne saucer glass. Add the orange bitters and half fill the glass with the white Burgundy. Stir to dissolve the sugar and then fill the glass with chilled champagne. Stir lightly and garnish with thin lemon slice.

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