If you want to taste history tonight, I've already prepared the complete shopping list with all the ingredients. Now, the legend.
The Casino is a rare gin cocktail preserved by Harry Craddock in the Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930, with origins presumed to go back to the 1890s New York social clubs. The name refers to the casinò and European clubs of the Belle Époque, where rich American expatriates gambled and drank sophisticated cocktails.
Its composition, with maraschino, orange bitters and lemon, makes it a distant cousin of the Aviation and the Martinez, part of the family of "pink gins" that flourished between Prohibition and its end. Forgotten for decades, the Casino was rediscovered by the contemporary cocktail revival as an example of pure pre-Prohibition elegance, and is today an essential entry in the forgotten classics repertoire.
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