Pink Lady (Cocktail)

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Pink Lady
Clover Club

Pink Lady is a classic, based on Gin prepared cocktail whose pink color (Engl. Pink ) by the addition of grenadine is produced.

Preparation and variations

There are several widely used variants of the Pink Lady, but they all have the use of gin, grenadine and egg white in common. These three ingredients also make up the simplest variant. In its 1937 edition , the Cafe Royal Cocktail Book wrote that you put a glass of gin, a tablespoon of grenadine and the egg white from an egg with ice in a cocktail shaker , shake it well and then strain it into a medium-sized glass without the ice. The same recipe can be found in the Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink .

Occasionally a little lemon juice is added to this basic recipe. This combination of gin, grenadine, lemon juice and egg white is also referred to as the Clover Club in many bar books. Some authors then add Applejack (apple brandy) and see this variant as the "real" Pink Lady, whose special taste is only created through the addition of Applejack and is less sweet than the other "fake" variants. The Applejack, the taste and production of which has changed significantly over the last 100 years, can also be replaced by another apple brandy, for example Calvados is used in some German cocktail books .

A creamy variant that has existed since the 1920s adds cream to the basic recipe . In New Orleans, she was also known as Pink Shimmy at the time of Prohibition . In addition, there are also cream variants in which lemon juice is added to the basic recipe in addition to cream or in which the cream replaces the egg white from the basic recipe. The variant with lemon juice is sometimes referred to as pink rose .

The cocktail is always shaken with ice cubes and served "straight up", ie without ice in a cocktail bowl. The finished drink is then often garnished with a cherry in the glass.

history

The invention of the Pink Lady is sometimes attributed to the interior designer and socialite Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950). However, the associated recipe, which is also known as the Lady Mendl Cocktail, differs greatly from the usual Pink Lady recipes. The base consists of gin here too, but instead of grapefruit and egg white, grapefruit juice and Cointreau are added. The name of the cocktail is also traced back to the then popular musical of the same name by Ivan Caryll , which was performed on Broadway in 1911 . The cocktail was already widespread during Prohibition and its combination of gin and grenadine became the model for a number of other “pink” cocktails. In New Orleans at the time, a creamy variant of the Pink Lady, the Pink Shimmy , was served in the Southern Yacht Club . Their recipe went back to Armond Schroeder, an employee of the club. One reason for the popularity of the Pink Lady during the time of prohibition was probably that the gin used at that time often had a bad taste of its own and therefore there was a need to improve it with additional ingredients.

Since the 1930s at the latest, the Pink Lady has developed a reputation as a typically “feminine” cocktail, which has been attributed to both its name and its creamy-sweet ingredients, since the latter was included in cocktail books such as Esquire's Handbook for Hosts (1949) associated with a feminine taste. It is said that the sex symbol and Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield loved drinking a pink lady before dinner. Male critics often complained or ridiculed the “feminine” character of the cocktail, and it has also landed on Esquire magazine's list of the ten worst cocktails.

literature

  • Rob Chirico: Field Guide to Cocktails: How to Identify and Prepare Virtually Every Mixed Drink at the Bar. Quirk Books, 2005, ISBN 1-59474-063-1 , pp. 208-210.
  • Eric Felten: How's Your Drink? Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well. Agate Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-57284-089-8 , pp. 120-123.
  • Ted Haigh: Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. Quarry Books, ISBN 978-1-59253-561-3 , pp. 251-252.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ned Halley: Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink. Wordsworth Editions, 2005, ISBN 1-84022-302-2 , p. 461 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  2. ↑ WJ Tarling, Frederick Carter: The Cafe Royal Cocktail Book. Pall Mall Ltd., Coronation Edition, London 1937, p. 154.
  3. ↑ Ted Haigh: Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. Quarry Books, ISBN 978-1-59253-561-3 , pp. 251–252 ( excerpt in Google book search)
  4. ^ A b Anthony Giglio, Ben Fink: Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide. John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-39065-8 , p. 89 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  5. ↑ a b c d Eric Felten: How's Your Drink? Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well. Agate Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-57284-089-8 , pp. 120–123 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  6. ^ A Change in Fortune. In: The Cocktail Chronicles. March 22, 2006, accessed November 23, 2009
  7. ↑ Ken Albala: Applejack . In: Rachel Black: Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-38048-8 , pp. 10-11.
  8. ↑ Franz Brandl : Cocktails with alcohol - 555 mixed drinks. 6th edition. Cormoran, 2001, ISBN 3-517-07927-8 , p. 56.
  9. ↑ Virginia Reynolds: Little Black Book of Cocktails: The manual around old and new classics. Wiley-VCH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-527-50359-9 , p. 131 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  10. ↑ a b c d e Rob Chirico: Field Guide to Cocktails: How to Identify and Prepare Virtually Every Mixed Drink at the Bar. Quirk Books, 2005, ISBN 1-59474-063-1 , pp. 208-210 ( excerpt in the Google Book Search)
  11. ^ A b c Daniel R. White: The Classic Cocktails Book. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-8362-6796-6 , p. 51 ( online copy )
  12. ^ A b Mary Lou Widmer: New Orleans in the Twenties. Pelican Publishing Company, 1993, ISBN 0-88289-933-3 , p. 132 ( excerpt in Google book search)
  13. ^ A b Salvatore Calabrese: Complete Home Bartender's Guide: 780 Recipes for the Perfect Drink. Sterling Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 0-8069-8511-9 , p. 61 ( excerpt in the Google book search)
  14. ↑ Cherie Fehrman, Kenneth R. Fehrman: Interior Design Innovators 1910-1960. Fehrmann Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9842001-0-8 , p. 15 ( excerpt in the Google book search)
  15. ^ Elsie de Wolfe: Cultural Maverick, Moral Iconoclast, and Interior Designer of Barnard's Brooks Hall. ( Memento of February 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) - Biography of Elsie de Wolfe on a Barnard College website (accessed March 20, 2010)
  16. ^ Flora K. Scheib: History of the Southern Yacht Club. Pelican Publishing, 1986, ISBN 1-56554-537-0 , p. 170 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  17. ↑ a b Jessy Randall: "Girl" drinks. In: Jack S. Blocker, David M. Fahey, Ian R. Tyrrell: Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-833-7 , Volume 1, p. 267. ( Excerpt from the Google book search)
  18. ↑ Eric Felten: This Lady Is Tart in Taste. In: The Wall Street Journal. March 21, 2007