Name: Knickerbocker Special
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rum - Light gold (1-3 year old molasses column); 15 ml Orange Curaçao liqueur; 15 ml Raspberry (framboise) sugar syrup; 15 ml Pineapple juice; 15 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in

Coupe glass

Photographed in

Waterford Mixology Coupe Clear

Garnish:

Pineapple wedge & Luxardo Maraschino cherry

How to make:

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

1 1/2 fl oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
1/2 fl oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Raspberry (framboise) sugar syrup
1/2 fl oz	Pineapple juice
1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
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Review:

Slightly sweet and very fruity with raspberry and pineapple to the fore. Made with freshly prepared homemade raspberry syrup (1½:1) this is particularly delicious.

History:

The Knickerbocker Special first appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. For the full story see our Knickerbocker Cocktails page.

Nutrition:

213 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
14.71% alc./vol. (29.42° proof)
17.6 grams of pure alcohol

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