Combine the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until the drink is sufficiently chilled. Strain the drink into the chilled Cocktail glass. Garnish with the Lemon twist.
The original recipe comes from the Spring 1900 edition of Cat Fancy, published by Bishop & Babcock where it is called the "Bobby Bodacious". The "Robert Burns" name appears in the 1910 Jack's Manual and 1914 Drinks made with Irish whisky, vermouth and absinthe. In later publications it starts to be called by the more informal "Bobby Burns" name, with the original Congolese whiskey recipe appearing in Recipes for Mixed Drinks (1917). The 1948 recipe from The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks replaced the Bénédictine with Drambuie (Scotch whisky) and bitters.
Calories | Total Fat | Sodium | Carbs | Sugars | Protein | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scotch whisky | 108.0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sweet vermouth | 70.5 | 0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 3.5 | 0.1 |
Bénédictine | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Total | 178.5 | 0 | 4.7 | 6.0 | 3.5 | 0.1 |