Angostura Bitters

The standard Champagne cocktail is Champagne poured over a sugar cube soaked in Angostura bitters. The drink dates back to the... 

AtTabla, the restaurateur Danny Meyer s fusion Indian restaurant on Madison Square Park, the house drinks are inspired by India.You don t find Angostura bitters or Tom Collins mix in these cocktails. You find cinnamon sticks and cumin seeds. 

Bitter spirits are produced using bitter and aromatic plants and fruit extracts and/or distillates, fmit juices, essential oils, with or without the addition of sugar or glucose syrup. Products of this type are for example Boonekamp, English Bitter, Spanish Bitter or Angostura Bitter (named after a town in Venezuela (today Ciudad Bolivar), it is the most popular cocktail spice made from bitter herbs and other aromatic botanicals) ... 

The well-known angostura bitters does not contain angostura bark at all and is made from a mixture of gentian root and other botanicals. 

It is used either as such or in the preparation of hot drinks (grog, punch), particularly in making Swedish Punch, and also for strengthening and improving the aroma of ginger liqueurs and bitters such as Angostura, Boonekamp, etc. It is also used in the preparation of sweetmeats. 

Angostura An aromatic, bitter bark used as a ionic and fever reducer taken from a South American uee (Cusparla angostura) of the family rutaceae. 

Bitters are made from alcohol and hitter and aromatic plant or fruit extracts and/or their distillates, fruit saps and natural essential oils, with or without sugar, i. e. starch syrup. This group of products includes Boonekamp, hitter drops, Eng-hsh and Spanish hitters, and Angostura. The so-called Aufgesetzter is made of hlack currants and spirit or grain alcohol. 

Gentian is also a major constituent of an-gostura bitters (see angostura). 

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