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Between the Sheets: a dry cocktail with rum, Cointreau and Cognac.
Recipe
For 1 person
2 cl white rum
2 cl brandy
1,5 cl triple sec (Cointreau)
1,5 cl lemon juice
How to make
👉 shaker / 🥃 cocktail glass / 🍸 short drink (7cl) / ⏱️ 4 mn
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Shake with ice cubes the rum, brandy, triple sec and lemon juice.
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Strain into a martini glass.
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Optionally add a lemon zest.
History
The Between The Sheets is a short drink made with gin, brandy, triple sec and lemon juice, it has become a classic cocktail.
Its origin is uncertain but its recipe with the ingredients we know today appeared in 1930 in "The Savoy Cocktail Book" by Harry Craddock.
That said, a theory exists that this cocktail was invented in 1921 by Mr. Polly at the Berkeley Hotel in London.
