Mayfair
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a coupe glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
Method
- 3 MUDDLE clove in base of shaker.
- 4 Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
- 5 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- 6 EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
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History
Clove adds enlivening spice to this cocktail, which features gin, orange and apricot.
The Mayfair Cocktail is featured in Robert Vermeire's 1922 book, How To Mix Them, where he asserts it as his own invention. The recipe provided is: Mayfair Cocktail Fill the shaker half full of broken ice and add: ¼ gill of Dry Gin. ¼ gill of plain Orange Juice. 3 or 4 dashes of Apricot Syrup flavoured with a little Cloves Syrup. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass. Vermeire described the drink as having "a delicious flavour" and stated, "I invented it at the Embassy Club in London, 1921." He further explained that "Mayfair is the aristocratic quarter of London, called so because during the reign of Charles II (seventeenth century) they used to hold a yearly fair during the months of May." Harry Craddock's 1930 publication, The Savoy Cocktail Book, also lists this drink: "Mayfair Cocktail 1 Dash Clove Syrup. ¼ Apricot brandy. ¼ Orange juice. ½ Gin. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass."
Created by Robert Vermeire