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

Cameo Kirby
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe Engraved 7.75oz

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Raspberry (framboise) sugar syrup

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered raspberry or lime wedge on rim.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

Rich jammy raspberry brilliantly balances sour lime with gin and vermouth sitting alongside each other as deliciously as ever.

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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.

Nutrition:

One serving of Cameo Kirby contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
14.51% alc./vol. (14.51° proof)
13.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Beverly Stanton

27th January 2024 at 23:50

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.

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Zach Schwartz

26th November 2023 at 01:40

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.

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Simon Difford

26th November 2023 at 19:55

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

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G. M. Genovese

16th November 2023 at 16:15

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.

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John Hinojos

25th October 2022 at 00:14

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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