Originally emerging in the 1850s in the French Quarter, New Orleans, by one Joseph Santini at a bar called Jewel of the South, this was arguably the first cocktail to use citrus, thereby arguably creating a new category of drinks: sours. In turn, it can be said to be the grandfather of the Sidecar.
The name is in reference to the crust found around the rim, and of course the brandy! The cocktail is well-founded and appears in the 1862 book Bartender’s Guide, the worlds first cocktail book.