Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)
1 1⁄2 oz | Blended Scotch whisky |
3 oz | Thomas Henry Ginger Ale |
Faintly smoky malty Scotch and subtly sweet ginger are flavours that are simply made for each other. Simple but delicious.
Served in a Collins glass with a generous squeeze of lime and garnished with lime rather than lemon.
Bartenders apparently became so sick of making Mamie Taylors in the 1900s that they hiked up the price of the cocktail to discourage customers from ordering it.
Mamie Taylor was invented in 1899 in Rochester, New York, and it spread like wildfire. The name is a bit of a mystery, but there are several versions of a tale linking this cocktail to the Broadway star of the same name.
Thirty years after its creation, the Mamie Taylor appears in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1935 The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book with the juice of half a lime served in a Collins glass. Sadly, the cocktail never managed to recover from Prohibition and has since faded from the limelight.
MAMIE TAYLOR
A. S. Crockett, 1934 Old-Waldorf-Astoria-Bar-Book/
Juice on-half Lime (Colins glass)
One jigger Scotch Whiskey
One bottle imported Ginger Ale
One serving of Mamie Taylor Highball contains 133 calories
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