now I'd like to make a sidecar cocktail for you of a sidecar cognac lemon juice Cointreau was created by McGarry of Bucks Club in London during Prohibition in America this drink I'm gonna make in what we call a Parisian shaker the Parisian shaker is this two piece a Boston shaker that I generally use here is this two piece right here this I'm going to mix in the bottom half of it and before I do that I'm going to actually prepare my glass sidecar is made with a sugar rim so I'm gonna rub lemon around the edge of the glass and then carefully roll the glass trying to make sure that the sugar does not go into the glass after I get it somewhat evenly coated and all over the way that around I'm going to take a towel and just even out the rim making sure to brush off any excess doesn't have to be perfect but always remember that we taste with our eyes first so that better looking the glass more likely the person drinking water house so now I just put a couple cubes in there to chill the glass citecar is a really simple combination of lemon juice Cointreau cognac and for me I add a tiny little bit of simple syrup Cointreau is a very dry orange orange like here so just a quarter ounce simple syrup I'm going to add 3/4 ounces of the Cointreau 3/4 ounces of freshly squeezed lemon juice which I squeezed and strained earlier and 2 ounces of cognac you could add another brandy another Olympic brandy but for me it's a French drink cognac is the official brandy of France prepare my glass give it a good shake this we're gonna use a Hawthorne strainer this is a beautiful German Hawthorne string of it fits perfectly over my Parisian shaker I'm gonna strain that into my sugar rim glass some people will garnish this with a lemon twist some an orange twist and some not at all the classic doesn't call for a twist so I'm not going to do it here's your sidecar