Name: Melancholy Baby
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Green melon liqueur; 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Photographed in a

New Era Rocks

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice .

1 1/2 fl oz	Green melon liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
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Dry/sour

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Review:

Sweet iced lurid green melon.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created for the 1987 US launch of Midori green melon liqueur.

Reporting on the launch of Midori, on the 24 September 1978 The Indianapolis Star newspaper reported, "Midori will debut in the form of a Melancholy Baby, which is made by pouring Midori on crushed ice and served with a splash of lime juice. The cocktail failed to take off, but Midori liqueur proved a hit through the rest of the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Nutrition:

One serving of Melancholy Baby contains 102 calories.

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
22.06% alc./vol. (44.12° proof)
13.2 grams of pure alcohol

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