Aviation Cocktail Recipe at MyDish

Aviation Cocktail

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Method

  • Firstly chill your cocktail glass by filling the glass with ice.

  • Add all the ingredients with ice into a cocktail shaker. Shake hard to wake the drink up. Strain ingredients into a martini glass or champagne saucer (whichever you prefer).

  • See our tips for garnishing this cocktail

  • Photo by Jimmy Nicol @ www.jimmynicol.com
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    Tips

    • There are two options for garnishing this cocktail.

      1. Lemon Peel Twist (as seen in the picture)
      2. Maraschino Cherry placed in the bottom of the glass before the cocktail is strained into the glass.

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    Ingredients

    • 50ml Gin
    • 15ml Lemon Juice (fresh)
    • 15ml Maraschino Liqueur
    • 7ml Creme De Violette

    By Views 1131  Added Thu Mar 11 2010


    I've always know about the Aviation cocktail but getting it right is essential, I stumbled across it in Las Vegas and they sure knew how to make an excellent version. This one!

     

    This recipe stems back to 1916 and has a different body and taste compared to the recipe feature in the Savoy Cocktail Book. As you can see from the image above, the crème de violette gives it that blue’y / violette colour (hence the reason it is Read More

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