Gin, shaken
Pendennis Club
Barline 2,1,Q,2,cLw
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 2 oz Gin
- 1 oz Apricot liqueur
- 3/4 oz Lime juice
- 2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Shake hard with ice, then strain.
Coupe, lime wheel.
Taste
Two ounces of gin against a full ounce of apricot liqueur, so the stone fruit is a third of the drink. Three-quarters lime is tart against the apricot; two dashes of Peychaud's pull cherry and anise through it. Shaken, coupe, lemon twist and a wheel. Pink, lime, and apricot.
History
The Pendennis Club in Louisville, founded in 1881, gives the drink its name. Two recipes print under it. William T. Boothby's 1908 World's Drinks lists gin, apricot brandy, and French vermouth, no lime. Charles H. Baker's 1939 Gentleman's Companion calls it The Pendennis Club's Famous Special: gin, dry apricot brandy, lime or lemon, two dashes of Peychaud's, strained over a split kumquat. The club later lost the running story of who mixed it. This menu is Baker's sour: two ounces of gin, one of apricot, three-quarters lime, two dashes of Peychaud's, shaken, with a lemon twist and a wheel and no kumquat.
Same shape, other bottles
The Daisy family, with the bottle that changed.
- Pegu Cluborange liqueur for apricot liqueur
- Fine and Dandylemon juice and orange liqueur for lime juice and apricot liqueur
- Champs-Élyséescognac and lemon juice for gin and lime juice
- Honeymoonapple brandy and lemon juice for gin and lime juice
- Brandy Crustacognac and lemon juice for gin and lime juice
- Ace of Clubsaged rum and crème de cacao for gin and apricot liqueur
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