A Sour is usually prepared from the following recipe:

  • The Juice of 1/2 Lemon
  • 1/2 Tablespoonful of Sugar
  • Add 1 Glass of Spirit or Liqueur as fancy dictates, Gin, Whisky, Brandy, Rum, Calvados, etc.

Shake well and strain into medium size glass. One squirt of Soda water. Add one slice of orange and a cherry.


This recipe originally appeared on page
186
of the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book