Oops – I missed one. Vic said: “Sponge based trifle cake in a drink form.”
There are various versions of this cocktail online but we followed the recipe in the Stork Club Book:
2oz.rum
3/4 oz. pineapple juice
3 dashes grenadine
Shake and serve in a 3 oz. cocktail glass.
Some versions online include marashino cherry juice or marashino liqueur but the Stork Club’s version was just as above. The esteemed Diffordsguide has this to say:
“Created in the 1920s (during Prohibition) by Fred Kaufman at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, for the silent movie star and wife of Douglas Fairbanks. Mary was in Cuba filming a movie with her husband Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. This is recounted on page 40 of Basil Woon’s 1928 book ‘When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba – “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.” Thus it would appear that a dash of maraschino liqueur is a later addition.”
I must ask my chum Gary if he has a copy of the Basil Woon book – he’s a big fan. Gary wrote a fabulous book about the Dolly Sisters and runs the Jazz Age Club so he knows all about glamour and cocktails!
Ooh, lovely, just found a copy for sale on Abebooks.com
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shame the postage is so steep!
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I love this very retro cocktail. It reminds me of when I used to satay at my friends house and we’d raid the drinks cabinet filling up with water thinking they’d never notice!?! At that time it was the sweet stuff all the way fro me.
Love the video clip from Market Kitchen. It must be hard to hold your own with all the chat! GG
Tee hee – I know what you mean GG. My cocktail cabinet is stacked to the brim with sweetie flavoured booze!
It was hard to hold my own on Market Kitchen sitting next to Alex James from Blur – I had a serious crush on him when I was younger. I think they made odd choices of what to make from all the many more lovely suggestions I made! It was great fun to do though. I was very nervous but I very much enjoyed someone doing my hair and make-up…
I love this very retro cocktail. It reminds me of when I used to satay at my friends house and we’d raid the drinks cabinet filling up with water thinking they’d never notice!?! At that time it was the sweet stuff all the way fro me.
Love the video clip from Market Kitchen. It must be hard to hold your own with all the chat! GG
Tee hee – I know what you mean GG. My cocktail cabinet is stacked to the brim with sweetie flavoured booze!
It was hard to hold my own on Market Kitchen sitting next to Alex James from Blur – I had a serious crush on him when I was younger. I think they made odd choices of what to make from all the many more lovely suggestions I made! It was great fun to do though. I was very nervous but I very much enjoyed someone doing my hair and make-up…
Well I’m glad you’ve given me the recipe and I don’t have to buy the original for over £2,000! A lovely addition to any book collection mind you.
Love trifle. Love trifle in a glass – whoop de doo, bring on the cocktail shaker, I’m gonna make me some Mary Pickford booze!
Yay! Go Lucy go. Trifle in a glass – mmm…
Well I’m glad you’ve given me the recipe and I don’t have to buy the original for over £2,000! A lovely addition to any book collection mind you.
Love trifle. Love trifle in a glass – whoop de doo, bring on the cocktail shaker, I’m gonna make me some Mary Pickford booze!
Yay! Go Lucy go. Trifle in a glass – mmm…