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Gargoyle No. 2

Fruity (e.g. Pornstar Martini) · Nightcap/sipping · Spirit-forward

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Ingredients

1 fresh Passion fruit
1 oz Gin
1 oz Vodka
1/4 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

  1. 1 Cut a passion fruit in half and scrape the flesh and seeds from both halves into shaker
  2. 2 Add other ingredients, shake with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Flavour profile

History

A spirituous and dry drink, with sugar amplifying flavour and softening the spirit.

The Gargoyle Club in London, England, is the namesake and birthplace of this cocktail, created around 1930 by its head bartender, George White. Its existence is documented in a number of cocktail publications from that era in England: - R. de Fleury's 1700 Cocktails For The Man Behind the Bar (1934) - William James "Billy" Tarling's Café Royal Bar Book (1937) - The United Kingdom Bartenders' Guild's The UKBG's Approved Cocktails (1937). GARGOYLE Invented by G. White 1/3 Vodka. 1/3 Booth's High and Dry Gin. 1/3 Passion Fruit Juice (sweetened). Put ingredients into shaker half filled with ice, and one slice of lemon, shake and serve.

Created by George White