Cocktail Evolution ZaZa Cocktail becomes Dubonnet and Gin - Glen And Friends Cocktails After DarkThe Gin and Dubonnet cocktail was apparently Queen Elizabeth's favourite tipple - so today we look at the history of a cocktail that starts out around 1906 as the Zaza Cocktail, and it's evolution over time to the Dubonnet and Gin cocktail.The first written version of this cocktail that I could find was in a 1906 cocktail book - looking through a newspaper database after filming, the first mentions of this cocktail in newspapers happens in early 1907. There seems to have been a travelling version of the play 'Zaza' that criss crossed the USA, and there were ads in newspapers promoting the cocktail by a gin and Dubonnet importer. I also later found a paragraph in the front section of my 1930s copy of 'Old Waldorf Bar Days' that claims the cocktail was invented at the Waldorf Hotel.But somehow the very simple Harry Craddock version in the Savoy Cocktail Book (the Harry Craddock cocktail book, Savoy Cocktail Recipes), is the version that stuck. Now there are also other Savoy Cocktail Book recipes for this cocktail... Just to make it confusing. We no longer do sponsorships or paid promotions of any kind; we tried it a couple of times but it never felt right. So if you want to support us, please subscribe, watch, comment and like the videos; maybe even go a step farther and recommend them to your friends and family. This channel is nothing without you our viewers! Thanks for watching the Old Cookbook Show and our Historical Cooking.#LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCookingCheck out our Aviation and Flying Channel: https://www.youtube.com/glenshangar
