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Club Cocktail (Whitfield's recipe)

Name: Club Cocktail (Whitfield's recipe)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 52.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 15 ml Maraschino liqueur; 20 ml Pineapple juice; 2 dash Creole bitters; 20 ml Brut sparkling wine

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Ingredients
1 3/4 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
1/2 fl oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
2/3 fl oz	Pineapple juice (chilled)
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
2/3 fl oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine (chilled)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

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

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with pineapple wedge on rim skewered with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Club Cocktail (Whitfield's recipe) contains 177 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
19.35% alc./vol. (38.69° proof)
22.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The "Club" cocktail first appears in W.C. Whitfield's 1939 book Just Cocktails as the third of three cocktails with the same name, two on page 27, with the second distinguished by "New England Style" appearing after the name in brackets; and this third version on page 48 in the "Cocktails of the 'Gay Nineties'" section. (Interestingly, there is not one Club cocktail in his 1941 book Here's How Mixed Drinks by the same Three Mountaineers Inc. publishers.)

CLUB
1 jigger Dry Gin
3 dashes Rum
3 dashes Orange Bitters
1 dash Green Chartreuse

CLUB (NEW ENGLAND STYLE)
2/3 Dy Gin
1/3 Italian Vermouth
Serve with an olive.

CLUB
3/4 jigger Old Brandy
2 dashes Maraschino
2 dashes Pineapple juice
2 dashes Bitters
Mix with ice and strain, dress with strawberries and twist of lemon peel, add a dash of champagne.
W.C. Whitfield, Just Cocktails, 1939

More cocktails by W.C. Whitfield

Review

Fortified with brandy and aromatised with maraschino liqueur and bitters, pineapple juice adds fruity, tropical notes, while sparkling wine adds freshness and contributes to this cocktail's foamy head.

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1w

I’ve just updated this recipe again. For the record, this was the previous version:
60 ml Cognac (brandy)
15 ml Maraschino liqueur
20 ml Pineapple juice
2 dash Creole-style bitters

David M. Premium Member 5y

I tweaked towards Difford’s version by increasing the pineapple juice to just under an ounce. Excellent. Wouldn’t want less juice.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Agreed David. I've upped pineapple to 20ml so as not to move too far from the original spec. I miss the touch of pisco in my version. But I'm biased!