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
Measures below are multiplied for 6 drinks. Unmeasurable amounts such as “a splash” are left as written.
- 270 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 270 ml line. Gin
- 90 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) and one small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a tablespoon. Lemon juice
- 90 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) and one small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a tablespoon. Raspberry syrup - Or muddle three raspberries with a spoon of sugar
- 6 egg whites Egg white
- 6 berries Raspberry (optional)
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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
Pitcher (6 drinks)Pitcher (6 drinks) - about 450 ml of measured ingredients, before ice and dilution.
Timings and per-glass steps below are written for one drink and are not scaled. A full jug takes longer to chill, so stir or shake until it is properly cold rather than by the clock, and pour over fresh ice one glass at a time.
- 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
Volumes in this story are multiplied for the size above, along with the ingredients. Years, ratios and the capacities of glasses and jugs are left as written.
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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