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Recipe
How to make
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Pour the scotch whisky, red vermouth, simple syrup and Angostura into a mixing glass half filled with ice cubes.
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Stir with a mixing spoon.
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Strain into a glass.
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Garnish with a lemon zest.
History
The Rob Roy cocktail is the scotch whiskey variation of the famous Manhattan, it appeared in a cocktail book for the first time in 1898 in "Cocktails: How to Make Them" by Livermore Knight Co.
Rob Roy was the nickname of Robert Roy MacGregor (1671-1734), a Scottish brigand and folk hero who inspired a novel by Sir Walter Scott as well as television adaptations.
Note that in 1884 the bartender Charlie Paul had published in his book "American and Other Drinks" a recipe for Manhattan with scotch whiskey, the Rob Roy recipe had therefore been published under another name before 1898.
