Name: Cameo Kirby
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Dry vermouth; 15 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Raspberry syrup

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 fl oz

Strucchi Dry Vermouth

1/2 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1/2 fl oz

Raspberry (framboise) sugar syrup

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of skewered raspberry or lime wedge.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered raspberry or lime wedge on rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cameo Kirby contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
14.51% alc./vol. (29.02° proof)
14 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Jacob Abraham Grohusko's 1933 Jack's Bar Manual 5th Edition.

CAMEO KIRBY COCKTAIL
50% dry gin
50% dry vermouth
2 teaspoons raspberry syrup
Juice of half a lime
Shake.

Jacob Abraham Grohusko, Jack's Bar Manual, 1933

This exhumed classic was recommended to us by Jason E. Clapham who told us that the cocktail is eponymously named after a 1923 silent movie directed by John Ford based on a 1908 play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson.

Comments & Discussion

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Leslie 6 months ago

This was perfectly awful because it was so damn quaffable! 😉 I found it too sweet with my homemade 2:1 raspberry syrup and added another 1/4 oz of lime juice. So glad to have another addition to my list of “fruity martinis”!

Beverly Stanton 2 years ago

Love that this is from the early years. They had only so many options. Loved this cocktail very tasty. Would make again and recommend to give it a try.

Zach Schwartz 2 years ago

I make my raspberry syrup 2:1 sugar:juice (bottled), and using that, the drink came out a bright pink, unlike in the picture. I’m curious as to why the pictured drink is so yellow looking.

Simon Difford 2 years ago

The cocktail in the photo was made using Monin Raspberry Syrup. I've just remade it to check and colour as per photo.

G. M. Genovese 2 years ago

My new raspberry syrup is that berry juice, pressed, 1:1 with cane sugar... had to dial back the specs 3:3:1:1 for it to gel.

John Hinojos 3 years ago

Had this for an aperitif and it was great. Did not have the raspberry sugar syrup, so used a bit of Chambord. It was delightful. Flavourful and refreshing.

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