Prohibition Era Cocktail Drinks: The "Mary Pickford" Recipe, a popular Cuban cocktail in the Roaring 20's.

How to make the Mary Pickford Cocktail drink from the Prohibition Era.

Mary Pickford and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, the golden-haired Mary Pickford was at the highest spot of the first generation of movie royalty.  This cocktail honors her and comes from 1920's Cuba. A it helped to make rum more popular.
And was a inspiration for many Tiki or Tropical cocktails with it's use of rum and pineapple juice, a main ingredient in many tiki and tropical cocktails today.

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Mary Pickford Recipe:
Ingredients
• 1 1/2 oz white rum (Bacardi, Cruzan, etc.)
• 1 oz unsweetened pineapple juice
• 1/2 teaspoon grenadine
• 1/8 oz marashino


Procedure:
Shack ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice until cold.
Pour and strain  cocktail into chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

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Prohibition era cocktails presents the "Mary Pickford" cocktail a great vintage cocktails popular in the roaring 20's. This is a great rum recipe to try that uses tropical fruit juice.

Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Bacardi Cocktail Drink Recipe for the 1920's.

How to make the classic Bacardi Cocktail from the Prohibition Era.
This drink was very popular in Florida during Prohibition because it was so close to Cuba.

The Bacardi Cocktail was the same as the Daiquiri, until a lawsuit changed the name. The drink contains the Rum, Lime and Sugar. There is a red version of the Bacardi that started in the United States and this uses Grenadine.

1917 Version of the Bacardi Cocktail• 1 drink Bacardi Rum
• 1/2 of the juice of a fresh lime
• 2 dashes Gum Syrup  (Sugar Syrup)

Shake well in a cocktail shaker with ice.

Strain and serve.

US Bacardi Cocktail Recipe:
Ingredients
• 1 1/2 oz light rum (Bacardi)
• 1 /2 oz Fresh lime juice
• 3 dashes of grenadine

Procedure:Shake well in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice.
Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

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Prohibition era cocktails features the Bacardi recipe. Popular with flappers during the roaring 20's. This mixed drink is a great rum recipe.