Pendennis Club Special
Ingredients
- 2 oz Tanqueray London Dry Gin
- 1 oz Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
- 1⁄2 oz Lime juice
- 2 dash Peychaud's Aromatic Bitters
- 2 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s optional
Method
Glassware:
Serve in a Coupe glass
Prepare:
- Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
Method:
- SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish:
- Garnish with skewered cherry.
Nutrition:
One serving of Pendennis Club Special contains 166 calories
History:
Eponymously named after the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky. The first known reference to this cocktail appears as the Pendennis Club Cocktail in the "Seductive American Cocktails" appendix in William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's 1908 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them book with just three ingredients: gin, apricot brandy, and dry vermouth.
By the time it resurfaces in Charles H. Baker Jr.'s 1939 The Gentleman's Companion as "The Pendennis Club's Famous Special", it morphed into a four-ingredient cocktail served over a split fresh kumquat. Modern-day recipes, such as the above, are nearer to Baker's 1939 Pendennis Club Cocktail than Cocktail Bill's 1908 Pendennis Club.
Review:
A gin-laced apricot-flavoured sour.
