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Pink lady (cocktail)

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as well. Its recipe was due to Armond Schroeder, an assistant manager at the club. The popularity of the pink lady might partially be explained by the frequently poor quality of gin during the prohibition era, due to which there was a need to mask the gin's bad taste.
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Often lemon juice is added to the basic form. Another creamier version of the pink lady that has been around at least since the 1920s adds sweet cream to the basic form. In New Orleans, this version was also known as
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At the latest in the 1930s the pink lady started to acquire the image of a typical "female" or "girly" drink due to its name and sweet creamy flavor usually associated with a woman's taste in publications like
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The exact origin of the pink lady is not known for sure. Occasionally its invention is attributed to the interior architect and prominent society figure
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Usually the ingredients for any of the versions are shaken over ice, and after straining it into a glass, the cocktail might be garnished with a cherry.
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of 1937, it is made with a glass of gin, a tablespoon of grenadine, and the white of one egg, shaken and strained into a glass.
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in common. In its most basic form, the pink lady consists of just those three ingredients. According to the
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The exact ingredients for the pink lady vary, but all variations have the use of gin, grenadine, and
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Elsie de Wolfe's concoction, also called Lady Mendl Cocktail, is gin based as well but adds
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Shake ingredients very well with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.
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of the same name, or named in the honour of its star
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in New Orleans, where it was offered under the name
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Pink Lady (cocktail)
Pink lady (medicine)
Pink Lady (disambiguation)

Cocktail
Gin
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Cherry

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gin
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Cafe Royal Cocktail Book

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Broadway musical
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Jayne Mansfield
List of cocktails
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