Aviation
45 ml Gin, 15 ml Maraschino liqueur, 15 ml Lemon juice, 7.5 ml Crème de violette, 1 Maraschino cherry
Photo: The Shore Room - June 2019 - Stierch 04 by Missvain · CC BY 4.0 · All credits
Ingredients
- 45 ml Jigger One small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a tablespoon and a teaspoon. Gin
- 15 ml Spoons A tablespoon. Lemon juice
- 15 ml Spoons A tablespoon. Raspberry syrup - Or muddle three raspberries with a spoon of sugar
- 1 egg white Egg white
- 1 berry Raspberry (optional)
Measured in Millilitres (UK). Sign in to read these in American measures. Print a kitchen card at this size.
What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Dry shake, then shake with ice, and strain into a coupe.
Method
- Put the gin, lemon juice, raspberry syrup and the egg white in a shaker with no ice and shake for 20 seconds.
- Add ice and shake again, hard, for another 15 seconds.
- Double strain into a chilled coupe - the strainer catches the raspberry pips.
- Let the foam settle for a moment, then float a raspberry on top.
Serve it
Clover Club
There really was a Clover Club: a Philadelphia society of journalists and lawyers who met in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel from the 1880s, wore a clover on the lapel, and drank this. It was considered a ladies' drink for most of the last century, which is a joke on everyone, because it is essentially a gin sour wearing a silk shirt.
Getting it right
The two-stage shake is the whole trick. Shaking without ice first whips the egg white into a stable foam, and shaking with ice afterwards chills it and thins it to something you can sip through - do it the other way round and you get a flat pink drink with a limp collar. And do use a fresh egg from a shop you trust; the shell is not part of the recipe.
Tasting notes
Raspberry up front, then a long soft finish where the gin and the lemon come back to remind you what you are drinking. The foam is not decoration - it is the texture the drink is famous for.
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