![]() ![]() While at the Savoy Craddock went on to create dozens of amazing classic cocktails, many of which are experiencing a revival but also the publication of his cocktail book. Once there he found himself at the American bar just after another legendary bartender Ada "Coley" Coleman hung up her shaker. The story goes that Craddock was the guy who served the last legal drink in America and the day prohibition went into effect he was on a boat headed for England. Although he found prominence as a bartender in New York ( he was said to have bartended for such luminaries as Charley Chaplin, Vivien Leigh, Ava Gardener and Errol Flynn), when Prohibition passed into law Craddock fled back to his native England to ply his trade. Craddock was a British bartender who immigrated to the US and found himself bartending at Legendary bars such as the Hoffman House and Knickerbocker Hotel. It made it's appearance in print in The Savoy Cocktail Book published in 1933. * I used Bols triple sec which is almost indistinguishable from Cointreau, but don’t tell anyone.The Corpse Reviver #1 is a cocktail invented by legendary British Bartender Harry Craddock while he was behind the stick at the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London. Maybe if we dig them up and give them a sip of this they could recreate the original formula for us? Toast Raymond and Paul Lillet for creating this wonderful elixir for us in 1887. 1oz Cointreau* Shake hard with ice and strain into an absinthe coated chilled Martini glass. 1oz dry gin of choice 1oz Lillet Blanc or Cocchi Americano 1oz fresh lemon juice. Also worth seeking out is Lillet Blanc Réserve but it’s far too good for mixing with.Ĭorpse Reviver #2. I can’t confirm that just yet as I’m still trying to track down a bottle of Cocchi. Word is that your CR#2 will be even better if you can replace your Lillet Blanc with some Cocchi Americano which is much closer to the Kina Lillet that would originally have been used (Kina was reformulated into the milder Lillet Blanc in The Dark Ages). I highly recommend keeping a bottle in the fridge over the summer months for those impromptu picnics and barbecues. A vermouth-like fortified wine from Bordeaux with hints of citrus, Lillet used to be tricky to come by but these days it seems to be fairly widely available. ![]() Lillet Blanc ( Lee-Lay Blonk) is a lovely straw-coloured aperitif that works very well in cocktails and is especially civilised on a hot summers day with just some ice and a slice of fruit. It is perhaps ironic that the favourite drink of Hannibal Lecter should be a key ingredient in the Corpse Reviver but don’t let that put you off. Drop the cherry in last and it will gently roll into place and the base of the glass, there to wait as a little reward for the imbiber. After that we shake hard equal quantities of fresh lemon juice, Cointreau, gin and Lillet Blanc and strain into the chilled and absinthey glass. Just spray a quick squirt evenly into a well chilled glass instead of the usual absinthe and ice swirling shenanigans. ![]() I always keep a spray bottle of absinthe handy for this as it’s just as effective as any other method as well as being quicker and less wasteful. Preparation of the CR#2 starts off with an absinthe rinse. It is also one of the few non-Martini drinks I would choose to serve in a Martini glass (along with the Aviation) because of the rather fetching effect gained from the cloudy yellow spirit with a glowing red cherry shining out from the base of the glass like a beacon through the fog. A close relative to the Aviation, the Corpse Reviver #2 is even simpler to put together thanks to its simple equal parts formula. ![]() While I’ve never tested it for its original purpose I can confidently report that this is a wonderfully crisp, beautifully balanced cocktail for more general use and one that always goes down well with guests. As such most were pretty foul but one of them was really quite delicious – you guessed it – the one known as the number (or #) 2. Corpse Reviver #2.Ĭorpse Revivers were, once upon a time, a range of quite varied drinks that were hailed as hangover cures. ![]()
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