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Hula Hula, Houla Houla or Hoola-Hoola

Name: Hula Hula, Houla Houla or Hoola-Hoola
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Orange Curaçao; 30 ml Orange juice; 2 dash Orange bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Hula Hula, Houla Houla or Hoola-Hoola image

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge speared with a Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with Ppneapple wedge on rim speared with a cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Hula Hula, Houla Houla or Hoola-Hoola contains 177 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.89% alc./vol. (39.78° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

History

First published, spelt Houla-Houla, in Robert Vermeire's 1922 Cocktails How to Mix Them with the notation, "This drink originates from Hawaii".

Houla-Houla Cocktail.
Fill the shaker half full of broken ice and add:
2/6 gill of Gin.
1/6 gill of Orange Juice.
1 teaspoonful of Curaçao.
Shake well and strain into a cocktail-glass.
This drink originates from Hawaii.
Robert Vermeire, Cocktails How to Mix Them, 1922

This cocktail then appears, spelt Hoola-Hoola, with an equal parts recipe in Harry of Ciro's 1923 ABC of Mixing Cocktails

Hoola-Hoola Cocktail.
⅓ Gin, ⅓ Curaçao, ⅓ Orange Juice.
Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails, 1923

But is returned to its original spelling for its inclusion in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

HOULA-HOULA COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Curaçao.
⅓ Orange Juice.
⅔ Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Ray Buhen, one of Don The Beachcomber's original bartenders, who went on to open his own Tiki-Ti Bar in Los Angeles, introduced a third spelling. In his book Sippin' Safari, Jeff Berry features a recipe for a Hula Hula from the personal notebook Ray used in 1934 when he first worked as a bartender at the Beverly Hills Hotel, "1 ounce orange curaçao, 1 ounce gin, 1 ounce fresh orange juice."

Review

Gin and juice - orange with a splash of orange liqueur.

Variations/similar cocktails

For a drier version of this cocktail see Houla Houla.
The Orange Blossom is simply gin and juice with grenadine.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$67.99 $2.72 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Ferrand Dry Curacao 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$34.99 $1.40 per cocktail Ferrand Dry Curacao image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

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Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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John Hinojos Premium Member 2y

Made again as a afternoon cocktail. Used 1 1/2 oz gin and cut back the curacao to 1/2 oz. Gin is more forward and cocktail not as sweet, but still with a strong orange flavour.