1 Lime (or lemon)
1 1⁄2 oz Cognac
3⁄4 oz Kummel
4 oz Champagne
Instructions

Take a large champagne cocktail glass and ice it well. Split a green lime, or lemon, lengthwise and rub its combined oils and juices over the whole inside of the crystal, and then on out and down a full 1/2" below the rim. First dip into powdered sugar, then fill the whole glass with the sugar-emptying it out and permitting what sticks to remain. . . Now in a bar glass add 2 dashes of orange bitters, 1 jigger cognac and 3/4 oz of Kummel, stirring for a moment with 3 ice cubes. Empty into goblet, fill with chilled dry champagne, toss in a scarlet rose petal and think of slender, pliable Russian Princesses and things!

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Posted by rwilde on
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Baker had it first at the French Concession of Shanghai, but notes that the drink comes from White Russia before the revolution.
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unknown authenticity
Reference

The Gentleman's Companion, vol 2 by Charles H. Baker, jr. (1939)

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