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Savannah

Name: Savannah
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 30 ml Orange juice; 15 ml White crème de cacao; 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised)

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Retro Coupe Gold 7.75oz

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Savannah contains 196 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
17.44% alc./vol. (34.89° proof)
22.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

History

A pre-Prohibition cocktail that first appears in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 book Old Waldorf Bar Days.

SAVANNAH
(claret)
Juice one-half Orange
Drink of Gin
White of one Egg
Dash of Crème de Cacao
Frappé
Albert Stevens Crockett, Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931

Our recipe adapted from the 1949 edition of Esquire's Handbook for Hosts.

SAVANNAH
Juice of one-half orange
1 jigger Gin
White of egg
Dash Crème de Cacao
Esquire's Handbook for Hosts, 1949

Review

Gin and orange with a hint of chocolate - smoothed with egg white.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
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Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$31.99 $0.64 per cocktail

Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur image

$3.36 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Tony Jones 1y

I really enjoyed this.
Well Balanced, it becomes a unique taste. The cacao seems to smooth everything out.
(I used blood orange and brown cacao.)

Chris Dimal 3y

Hmm. I feel like the gin is still too dominant. I taste very little Cacao. Maybe it's supposed to be this way?

Søren Jensen 5y

To me, gin is way too dominant in this case.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Agreed. I've reduced the gin and upped the orange juice - now a much better cocktail.

Frank Caiafa 1y

Hi Simon,
Originally found in 'Old Waldorf Bar Days' (1931)
One of my absolute favorites and an undervalued gem of the pre-pro era for sure.

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