Club Cocktail (Whitfield's recipe)

Club Cocktail (Whitfield's recipe) image
Serve in
a Coupe glass...
2 shot Martell VSOP Médaillon cognac BUY
½ shot Luxardo Maraschino liqueur BUY
½ shot Fresh pressed pineapple juice
2 dash Peychaud's aromatic bitters
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How to make:

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

Garnish:

Pineapple wedge & Luxardo maraschino cherry

Comment:

Pineapple juice adds fruity tropical freshness and a foamy head to this cocktail fortified with cognac and aromatised with a splash of maraschino cherry liqueur and a couple of dashes of New Orleans bitters.

Origin:

The Club Cocktail first appeared in W.C. Whitfield's 1939 Just Cocktails book (although does not appear in his 1941 Here’s How Mixed Drinks by the same Three Mountaineers Inc. publishers).

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