Name: Pendennis Club Revisited
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Old Tom gin; 20 ml Apricot liqueur; 7.5 ml Peach schnapps; 15 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 Creole bitters; 2 Saline solution 4:1; 7.5 ml Chilled water (omit if wet ice)

How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare Luxardo Maraschino Cherry for garnish.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with Luxardo Maraschino cherry.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
2/3 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Peachtree peach schnapps
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
1/4 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if wet ice)
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Review:

This follows the classic gin and sour lime sweetened and flavoured by apricot brandy but with extra-fruity freshness courtesy of a splash of peach schnapps. Generous use of bitters keeps that fruitiness in check.

Variant:

Cocktail Bill's 1908 Pendennis Club Cocktail
Pendennis Club Special
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Improved Improved Pendennis Club Cocktail

History:

A riff on the classic Pendennis cocktail by yours truly in July 2020.

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Nutrition:

179 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.27% alc./vol. (38.54° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

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