Sugar cube

• Other
• Non-alcoholic

A sugar cube is granulated sugar, white or brown, lightly moistened and pressed into a small block. It tastes like ordinary sugar; what changes is how it dissolves. In the Old Fashioned and the Sazerac it is soaked with bitters and muddled with a little water: the traditional method, more theatrical but less consistent than syrup. In the Champagne Cocktail it stays whole at the bottom of the glass and, dissolving slowly, feeds a steady stream of bubbles.

Used in 3 cocktails.