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Mayfair Cocktail

Clove adds enlivening spice to this orange and apricot, gin-laced cocktail
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Lindley Trueblood’s Avatar Lindley Trueblood
13th September at 18:07
Found this slightly disappointing- perfectly pleasant but found it very difficult to taste any clove at all through the orange and apricot.
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Ran Van Ongevalle’s Avatar Ran Van Ongevalle
30th December 2020 at 13:28
..I invented it at the Embassy Club in London, 1921. Mayfair is the aristocratic quarter of London, called so because of the reign of Charles II (seventeenth century) they used to hold a yearly fair there during the months of may.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
30th December 2020 at 15:39
Many thanks for the very insightful feedback. I've dusted off my copy of How To Mix Them and added the copy you kindly shared.
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Ran Van Ongevalle’s Avatar Ran Van Ongevalle
30th December 2020 at 13:28
In fact this drink was created by a fellow Belgian Bartender called Robert Vermeire in 1921 when he was working in the "Embassy Club" in London.

Following is from his 1922 "Cocktails : how to mix them"

Mayfair Cocktail
Fill the shaker half full of broken ice and add :
1/4 gill of Dry Gin
1/4 gill plain Orange Juice
3 or 4 dashes of Apricot Syrup flavoured with a little Cloves syrup
Shake well and strain into a cocktail-glass. This cocktail possesses a delicious flavour ...
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