Name: Savoy Special No.1
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 30 ml Vermouth - Dry; 1.25 ml Grenadine/pomegranate syrup; 1 Absinthe verte (green)

Serve in a

Martini glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

2 fl oz	Gin
1 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1/24 fl oz	Grenadine/pomegranate syrup
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strucchi Dry Vermouth – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Review:

An aromatised 2:1 shaken Dry Martini with a tiny dose of grenadine, which turns this the merest rust-pink, while just a dash of absinthe adds wormwood complexity.

History:

Adapted from Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

SAVOY HOTEL SPECIAL COCKTAIL (No. 1.)*
1 Dash Absinthe.
2 Dashes Grenadine.
1/3 Fresh Vermouth.
2/3 Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon on top.
* Peter, ninth Earl of Savoy, brought to England, as his wards, eighty-three of the most wealthy and beautiful girls in France. He then married them to the most powerful nobles in England. That is why he wore armour.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Savoy Special No.1 contains 172 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
25.23% alc./vol. (50.46° proof)
23.1 grams of pure alcohol

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