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Mary Pickford

Classic/vintage · Fruity (e.g. Pornstar Martini) · Hall of Fame and must know/try

4.0 208 ratings

Ingredients

2 oz Light gold rum 1-3yo
1 1/2 oz Pineapple juice
1/6 oz Maraschino liqueur
1/6 oz Grenadine syrup

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour profile

16.4% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 180 calories

History

When made correctly, this pale-pink cocktail balances fruit and rum spirit perfectly.

This cocktail was created in the 1920s, during Prohibition, by Fred Kaufman at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba. It was made for the silent film star Mary Pickford, wife of Douglas Fairbanks. Mary was in Cuba filming a movie with her husband and his close friend, Charlie Chaplin. This account is found on page 40 of Basil Woon's 1928 book, When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba. Woon writes, "The Mary Pickford, invented during a visit to Havana of the screen favourite by Fred Kaufman, is two-thirds pineapple-juice and one-third Bacardi, with a dash of grenadine. Both cocktails [The Presidenté is also mentioned] are sweetish and should be well shaken. The pineapple juice must be fresh-squeezed." Therefore, it appears the dash of maraschino liqueur, now considered a necessary component, was added to the Mary Pickford at a later time.