History of the
Amaretto Sour

The Amaretto Sour is just one of many cocktails in the Sour family that rely on the combination of a spirit, lemon juice sour and a sweetener. The amaretto sour is the perfect combination of a sweet almond spirit and an acidic kick that lemon usually provides. Its name Sour comes from the fact that it has lemon inside. Typically, when you order an amaretto sour, you will be served amaretto spirit with squeezed lemon juice. The particularity of the cocktail we are talking about today is the addition of egg white. Indeed, when we hear the word egg white, it can scare some people for fear of catching a disease. Here, the egg white is put in a shaker and becomes a foam like a cappuccino. Do you see the difference between a cappuccino and a coffee? Well, the egg-free amaretto sour may give you the same frustrating effect if you don't drink it with the eggs.

A modern and widely used recipe by Jeffrey Morgenthaler adds a bit of bourbon whiskey and egg white to this combination, so that combination, so that shaking it in a cocktail shaker creates an attractive crown of foam.

Other recipes, however, include orange juice, while many mixologists forgo the addition of syrup, as the amaretto already has a fairly sweet taste that balances the acidity of the lemon juice. Since the cocktail was often previously made with a ready-made Sour mix, the Amaretto Sour has long suffered from a bad reputation. It suffered from a bad reputation because it was supposedly too soft for some people. Except the day a woman won a monumental amount of money at the casino playing poker. Her opponents did not take her seriously because she was a woman and because she drank a drink that was considered soft. Throughout the game she repeatedly ordered this delicious cocktail. As you can guess, she won money and became known as the woman with the amaretto sour.

Nevertheless, it is the the most common choice when it comes to using the Italian almond or apricot kernel liqueur in a cocktail. But when was this short drink invented ?

No one knows exactly. Many believe that the cocktail was born in the 1970s in the United States, when more more and more people started to drink Italian liqueurs and especially Amaretto. The question would be whether this woman would have made the greatest poker players want to drink this cocktail in order to destabilize and be able to bluff as it should be done in these games. To reassure you, I myself ordered an amaretto sour at the casino and the only thing I can tell you is that it did the trick. I left with a lot of money in my pocket, and I ordered more than one. Take this drink as a good luck charm and a symbol of strength. Good Luck !

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