Name: Yellow Daisy
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Gin; 40 ml Vermouth - Dry; 20 ml Grand Marnier liqueur; 3 Absinthe verte (green)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in an

UB Coley Coupe Gold 6oz

Garnish:

Pink grapefruit (or lemon) zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE (or stir) all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/3 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 1/3 fl oz	Dry vermouth
2/3 fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
3 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
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£ 17.50 £ 0.95 per cocktail, makes 18.5 Grand Marnier liqueur, 70cl

£ 30.75 £ 0.89 per cocktail, makes 34.5 La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 51.50 £ 0.44 per cocktail, makes 116.5

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Review:

This is the kind of cocktail that many bartenders will want to stir rather than shake. However, it is classically shaken. Herbal, zesty and spirituous. Absinthe plays a key role but does not overwhelm.

History:

Despite its name, the Yellow Daisy is not a member of the daisy family of cocktails. Best described as a sweetened and aromatised Martini, It was a popular drink in the early 20th century and featured in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book accompanied by a notation saying the drink was the favourite of, and perhaps invented by, Richard William "Deadwood Dick" Clark. He was a famous larger-than-life wild west character of the day who mixed with the likes of Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane.

YELLOW DAISY COCKTAIL.* (6 people)
2 Glasses Gin.
2 Glasses French Vermouth.
1 Glass Grand Marnier.
Before shaking add a dash of Absinthe.
*Not only the favourite drink, but also the one made famous, if not invented, by Richard William ("Deadwood Dick") Clark, recently deceased (84) : onetime Guster Scout, Pony Express rider, Deadwood Gulch stage-coach guard, inspiration for all the (64) Deadwood Dick novels of E. L. Wheeler; friend of Wild Westerners, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Poker Alice Tubbs, Calamity Jane, Madame Mustache and Diamond Dick Turner of Norfolk, Neb. : Clark is buried on Sunrise Mountain, overlooking Deadwood Gulch, S. Dak.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Yellow Daisy contains 199 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
24.86% alc./vol. (49.72° proof)
25.1 grams of pure alcohol

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