Ingredients:
2cl Cognac
2cl Cointreau
3cl lemon juice
1cl sugar syrup

Preparation:
Pour all the ingredients into a shaker, add a few ice cubes and shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and serve. Good quality ingredients are the key to a great-tasting Sidecar.

History:
During the First World War, there was an American Army captain based in Paris whose primary occupation seemed to be keeping the city’s bartenders busy. On visits to his favourite bistro, his preference for a particular drink regularly meant that he had to be driven home in the sidecar of his motorcyle. This is one of the theories as to where the drink gets its name. According to another legend, the same US Army officer always ordered one cocktail for himself and one for his “sidecar” in his favourite Parisian haunt. In any case, the cocktail certainly became legendary when the senior bartender at the famous Ritz Bar in Paris served it with an 1865 Cognac for five US Dollars a glass in 1923, and when the Scotsman Harry MacElhone mixed it in 1931 at “Harry’s Bar” in Paris.