Floradora
- 2 oz60 ml dry gin
- ½ oz15 ml fresh lime juice
- ½ oz15 ml raspberry syrup
- Top withTop with ginger ale (about 4 oz)
- Fill a tall glass with ice.
- Add the gin, lime juice and raspberry syrup and stir to mix.
- Top with ginger ale and give one gentle stir.
- Garnish with a lime wheel and a raspberry.
Garnish: lime wheel and a raspberry
The syrup
In this recipe
Raspberry Syrup½ oz15 ml
Raspberry syrup is crushed raspberries steeped in hot 1:1 simple syrup, then strained to remove the seeds.
As printed: raspberry (syrup)
Where it comes from
Named for Florodora, the London musical that reached Broadway in 1900; in 1901 a New York paper described this raspberry-and-lime gin buck as invented for one of the show's famous chorus girls. Jacques Straub printed it as the Floradora Cooler in his 1914 bar guide.
Source: Drinks by Jacques Straub (1914).
Checked against: archive.org: Jacques Straub, Drinks (1914), p. 46 · Kindred Cocktails: Florodora (from Esquire) · Punch: Floradora (Alba Huerta) · Punch: The Floradora (history)
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