The big Lebowski– everyone’s thought about it, right? Your Dude rolls out on a rusty Gran Torino and drinks White Russian. It’s an immortal movie, and there’s no need to talk about it. For obvious reasons, the popularity of this cocktail skyrocketed after the release of the film.
Recipe
5 parts vodka
2 parts coffee liqueur
3 parts cream
Pour all the ingredients into an Old Fashioned glass with ice or stones. Mix it up.
My notes
It’s as simple as that. Choose a coffee liqueur according to your taste. Personally, I prefer the sweet ones in this cocktail – Kahlua or Tia Maria.
I also advise you to shake the cream before adding it to the cocktail – this will give them a thicker and more pleasant consistency.
The whole point lies in the fact that there are a great many cocktail options, but I will mention only those that I happened to make with my own hands.
If you don’t add cream, you’ll get Black Russian – and this is probably my favorite option.
And if cream is replaced with cream liqueur, then you get a Blind Russian. In this version, I advise you to take a coffee liqueur that is not sweet (for example, Borghetti), otherwise it will be too cloying. It’s also a good recipe.
If you replace the cream with chocolate milk, you get Dirty Russian. It’s not bad either, but it’s slightly worse than the first two variations.
In White Cuban, vodka is replaced with rum. Some people recommend taking white rum, but I see no reason not to take any other. Anyway, I didn’t really like the rum option.
And if you believe the Oxford English Dictionary, then for the first time the name White Russian itself appeared in a 1965 California newspaper as a note, and there was a recipe for cream, coffee liqueur and vodka, one part each.
And you know, for my taste, this thing is even better than modern proportions. The only winner of this ancient recipe is Black Russian. Besides, it seems to me that the Dude was preparing his White Russian exactly according to this principle, since measuring one part by eye is much easier than 5-3-2.
The cocktail masters from the Coole Swan liqueur bring their own version with their own proportions. In fact, it can hardly be called a White Russian anymore, so I’ll probably leave it for later, but the most impatient can get acquainted themselves.: https://web.archive.org/web/20170325051304/https://cooleswan.com/perfect-white-russian/
And yes, each of these options has the right to be used, and it is the use, yes, pleasant, that I wish you, comrades.
