Name: Princess Mary's Pride
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 25 ml Rouge aromatised wine; 25 ml Ambrato vermouth

Princess Mary's Pride
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
⁵⁄₆ oz	Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine
⁵⁄₆ oz	Ambrato/ambre/amber vermouth

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Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make:

STIR (or shake) all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Ambrato/ambre/amber vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Apple brandy to the fore, followed by aromatised wine.

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Variant:

Princess Pride

History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Harry Craddock on 28th February 1922 to celebrate the wedding of H.R.H. Princess Mary, and published in his 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book where he calls for this cocktail to be shaken rather than stirred.

PRINCESS MARY'S PRIDE COCKTAIL.
¼ French Vermouth.
¼ Dubonnet.
½ Calvados.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Created by Harry Craddock on February 28, 1922, to mark the wedding celebrations of H.R.H. Princess Mary.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965), was the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary; sister of Kings Edward VIII and George VI: and aunt of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. She married Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (later the 6th Earl of Harewood), in 1922 and was given the title of Princess Royal in 1932.

Nutrition:

One serving of Princess Mary's Pride contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
20.28% alc./vol. (20.28° proof)
19.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Beth Hagberg

9th February 2024 at 13:50

I was wondering about an adaptation of this cocktail using whiskey, to honor Princess Margaret, who died on this day in 2002, as she was so fond of whiskey (if the Crown is accurate about this). Thoughts?

Simon Difford

9th February 2024 at 16:37

Perhaps try with a blended Scotch whisky in place of calvados.

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