Bacardi Special Cocktail
Bacardi Special Cocktail*
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine. (Homemade)
1/3 Burroughs Beefeater Gin. (3/4 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
2/3 Bacardi Rum. (1 1/2 oz Flor de Cana Extra Dry Gin)
The Juice of 1/2 Lime.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
*Made famous by Karl K. Kitchen, the well known New York Newspaper Columnist.
This is tastier than it really has any business being. A bit like Harrington’s Jasmine. Light and tart. Very similar to a glass of alcoholic grapefruit juice. It’s always fun to find some of these Savoy cocktails still have legs, so I was pleased to get some very positive reactions when I’ve served this drink at parties. Give it a try and let me know what response you get.
Nice to get back, after the Babbie Special, to something I can recommend.
Karl K. Kitchen was a bon vivant and journalist with the New York World in the early part of the 20th Century.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.
