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Cameo Kirby

Aperitivo/aperitif · Sours (citrus)

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Ingredients

1 oz Gin
1 oz Dry vermouth
1/2 oz Lime juice
1/2 oz Raspberry syrup

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of skewered raspberry or lime wedge.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with skewered raspberry or lime wedge on rim.

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Flavour profile

14.5% alc./vol. · 1 standard drink · 154 calories

History

Rich raspberry balances sour lime with gin and vermouth alongside each other.

This Cameo Kirby Cocktail recipe is adapted from 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. Jason E. Clapham recommended this resurrected classic, explaining that the cocktail is named after a 1923 silent movie directed by John Ford. The film was based on a 1908 play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson.