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Cocktail recipe

Aviation

Floral gin sour.

Aviation cocktail

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Gin
  • 0.5 oz Maraschino Liqueur
  • 0.25 oz Crème de Violette
  • 0.75 oz Lemon Juice
  • 1 piece Cocktail Cherry

Method

  1. Shake the gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette, and lemon juice with ice.
  2. Double strain into a chilled coupe.
  3. Garnish with cherry.

Story

First printed in Hugo Ensslin's 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks, with crème de violette giving it the pale sky colour that explains the name. The Savoy Cocktail Book dropped the violette in 1930, and for decades the drink was made without it until the liqueur became available again.