Name: Margaret Rose
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack; 15 ml Triple sec (e.g. Cointreau); 15 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 5 ml Grenadine/pomegranate syrup

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in a

Libbey Sway 4.5oz

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

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

1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1/2 fl oz	Triple sec liqueur (40% alc./vol.)
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Grenadine/pomegranate syrup (2:1)
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Review:

Depending on your lemon juice, this Sidecar-like Daisy may benefit from an additional 2.5ml sugar syrup to balance.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book where it is credited to "J. W. Fish".
(Our thanks to Jason Clapham of Oxford, England for bringing this recipe to our attention.)

MARGARET ROSE
1/3 Gin.
1/3 Calvados.
1/6 Cointreau.
1/6 Lemon Juice.
Dash Grenadine.
Shake.
William James Tarling, Café Royal Bar Book, 1937

Nutrition:

One serving of Margaret Rose contains 191 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
25.77% alc./vol. (51.54° proof)
24.5 grams of pure alcohol

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