Pepin Rivero Special

Serve in a Coupe glass...
1½	fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
1	fl oz	Creme de cacao liqueur (white)
1	fl oz	Milk

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How to make:

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

Garnish:

Chocolate powder rim

Comment:

White chocolate come coconut ice-cream, only vaguely rescued from fluffiness by gin spirit.

About:

Created by Constantino (Constante) Ribalaigua Vert at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba. This recipe is adapted from a 1937 Bar Florida (later renamed Floridita) menu. The name refers to Pepin Rivero, who took over the Cuban El Diario de la Marina newspaper upon the death of his father Don Nicolas Rivero in 1944.

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