Name: Skipper
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Maraschino liqueur; 5 ml Orange juice; 5 ml Lemon juice

Skipper
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Photographed in an Urban Bar Fluet Double Old Fashioned Gold Rim 45cl

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.
Garnish with skewered cherry.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Temperature and dilution are key to the success of this cocktail, achieved with a glass filled to the brim with very cold ice chips.

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Variant:

With a splash of grenadine replacing orange juice.
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History:

A pre-prohibition cocktail from the Big Brass Rail bar at the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, USA. Adapted from a recipe first published in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days.

SKIPPER
Solon recalls that this was so called in compliment to a yachtsman well known many years ago, but does not remember his name.
Two-thirds Gordon Gin
One-fourth Maraschino
Dash of Orange Juice
Dash of Lemon Juice
Frappé
Albert Stevens Crockett, Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931

Nutrition:

One serving of Skipper contains 137 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
24.53% alc./vol. (24.53° proof)
17.2 grams of pure alcohol

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