A Russian is a cocktail made with vodka, a coffee drink (eg, KahlÃÆ'ºa or Tia Maria), and cream served with ice in Old Fashioned glass. Often milk will be used as an alternative to cream.
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The traditional cocktails known as Black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, became a White Russia with an extra cream. Drinks are not from Russia, but both are named so because vodka is the main ingredient. It is not clear which drinks go ahead of the others.
The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the first mention of the word "White Russian" in the cocktail sense as it appeared in California Oakland Tribune on November 21, 1965. It was placed in the paper as an insert: "White Russia 1 oz each South, vodka, cream", with "South" refers to Southern Coffee, a brand of short coffee drink by Southern Comfort.
Although long regarded as a boring and unsophisticated beverage, the White Russians saw a spike in popularity after the release of the 1998 movie Big Lebowski, where it emerged as the preferred beverage of the protagonists.
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Like all cocktails, various modes of preparation exist, varying according to recipes and particular bar styles or mixologists. The most common variety has adjusted the amount of vodka or liqueur coffee, or a mixed brand of coffee drink. Shake the cream to thicken it before pouring it over the drinks is also commonplace. Sometimes drinks are prepared on a stove with hot coffee to treat warm on cold days.
Variations
Many variants of cocktails exist, both localized and widely known, such as Blind Russian (which replaces cream with Baileys Irish Cream), a Mudslide (a Blind Russian with added cream), White Canadian (made with goat's milk), an Anna Kournikova (named after a tennis player, made with skimmed milk, "thin, low-fat" Russian White), a White Cuban (made with rum instead of vodka), or Dirty Russian (made with chocolate milk instead of cream).
See also
- Cocktail list
- Russian Black
- List of coffee drinks
References
Further reading
- Steven Kurutz (2 December 2008). "White Russian Rise, Currently in Bowling Alley". The New York Times . Retrieved July 15, 2011 .
- The Dudely Lama (June 14, 2009). "White Russian Revolution". The Dudespaper . Retrieved July 16, 2012 . Ã,
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