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Medium
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Pendennis Club Special
Measurements in:
Serves:
| 1 1⁄2 fl oz | Hayman's London Dry Gin |
| 3⁄4 fl oz | Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur |
| 1⁄4 fl oz | Lemon juice (freshly squeezed) |
| 1⁄4 fl oz | Lime juice (freshly squeezed) |
| 1⁄6 fl oz | Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix |
| 2 dash | Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters |
| 2 drop | Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s (optional) |
How to make
Glassware
Serve in a Coupe glass
Prepare
- Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
Method
- SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- Garnish with skewered cherry.
Flavour Profile
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Health & Nutrition
Nutrition:
One serving of Pendennis Club Special contains 166 calories
Alcohol content:
- 1.4 standard drinks
- 21.3% alc./vol. (42.6° proof)
- 20.2 grams of pure alcohol
History
Eponymously named after the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky. The first known reference to this cocktail appears as the Pendennis Club Cocktail in the "Seductive American Cocktails" appendix in William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's 1908 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them book with just three ingredients: gin, apricot brandy, and dry vermouth.
By the time it resurfaces in Charles H. Baker Jr.'s 1939 The Gentleman's Companion as "The Pendennis Club's Famous Special", it morphed into a four-ingredient cocktail served over a split fresh kumquat. Modern-day recipes, such as the above, are nearer to Baker's 1939 Pendennis Club Cocktail than Cocktail Bill's 1908 Pendennis Club.
THE PENDENNIS CLUB'S FAMOUS SPECIAL
Charles H. Baker Jr., 1939
To 1 jigger of dry gin add ½ jigger of the best dry apricot brandy procurable. Squeeze in the juice of 1 lime or ½ a small lemon, strained of course, and trim with 2 dashes of Peychaud's bitters which has been made for generations in New Orleans. . . . Split a ripe kumquat, now available during the winter in most big grocery or fruit stores; take out the seeds and put the two halves in a Manhattan glass. Stir the drink like a Martini with lots of cracked ice and strain onto the golden fruit.
Review
A gin-laced apricot-flavoured sour.
AKA: Pendennis Club Cocktail
Variations/similar cocktails
Cocktail Bill's 1908 Pendennis Club Cocktail
Improved Pendennis Club Special
Improved Improved Pendennis Club Cocktail
Pendennis Club Revisited
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