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Clover Club
Gin-laced, sweet 'n' sour with a fruity blast of rich raspberry toned by dry vermouth. Depending on your raspberry syrup, the finished cocktail may...
Rhett Williams
16th November at 01:37
I scoured the 1908 1st edition of Jack's Manual on the EUVS archive and didn't find any mention of either a Clover Leaf or Clover Club. The first listed 1910 edition on there (must be 2nd edition?) does contain a Clover Leaf, and the 1910 3rd edition does have both Leaf & Club with the recipes you have here. This would put the earliest mention (1901), earliest recipe (1901), and earliest cocktail book publication (1909) of a Clover cocktail as the Club, not the Leaf, right?
16th November at 10:46
The first known recipe for Clover Leaf appears in Jacob Abraham Grohusko's 1908 'Jack's Manual', while the first reference to and recipe for a Clover Club (unearthed by David Wondrich) is in a 23 June 1901 piece in the 'New York Press'. Quotes etc above and on our Clover Leaf page.
19 hours ago
I just looked through ALL of the 1908 edition of Jack's Manual and there is no "Clover Leaf." I'm trying to clarify exactly where you found your reference.