Gin Cocktails
Pink Lady Cocktail
Pink Lady Cocktail Ingredients
1 oz. Tanqueray Gin
0.75 oz. Laird's 7.5 Year Old
0.75 oz. Grenadine
0.75 oz. Fresh lemon juice
1 Egg white
Garnish
none
Pink Lady Cocktail Preparation
Separate the egg whites from the yolk and place the whites in a shaker. Add the remaining ingredients. Combine tins without ice and shake hard for fifteen seconds. Add ice and shake very hard. Fine strain into a coupe or stemmed glass. Allow the meringue from the egg to rise to the top and set in a thick layer.
Pink Lady Cocktail Story
Invented by Jacques Straub and first appearing in his 1913 publication of Manual of Mixed Drinks, the Pink Lady suffered from a series of misrepresentations that worked to mar its popularity over time. Straub’s recipe is a tart and fruity sour made with a unique and unconventional combination of gin and apple brandy. Later recipes, especially those recorded by English bartenders, added egg whites and omitted apple brandy, likely due to the near impossibility of acquiring an American-made spirit during Prohibition. In the post-Prohibition decades, the Pink Lady was unfairly maligned for appealing only to female drinkers, despite its similarity to gentleman’s club favorites like the Clover Club.