Here in the South, we LOVE our cocktails. Every Friday the Southern Foodies like to share one of our favorite Southern-Traditional, Southern-Created or Southern-Inspired Cocktail Recipes we know you will enjoy.
Today’s Southern Cocktail, Mary Pickford was created for America’s Sweetheart and first true movie star. And like its namesake, the Mary Pickford Cocktail is beautiful and sweet, but surprising strong.
Southern Cocktail #11 is Mary Pickford Cocktail Recipe
It’s Friday the 13th. We thought we should probably do something sweet to try and counteract the bad mojo. You don’t get much sweeter than “America’s Sweetheart”, Mary Pickford.
Mary Pickford was a monumental figure in the very early days of Hollywood and motion pictures. The star of over 200 films, most of them silent, was beloved as America’s Sweetheart. She was instrumental in forming the United Artists Studio and won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in 1928’s “Coquette.”
There are thousands of books, TV shows, documentaries and webpages telling the life story and singing the well-deserved praises of the first real movie star. If you are unfamiliar with the lady or her life and work, please do yourself a huge favor and read a bit about her and, especially, watch a few of her movies. She was truly remarkable and far ahead of most of her contemporaries in acting skill and business sense.
The Mary Pickford is a Prohibition Era cocktail made with white rum, fresh pineapple juice, grenadine and Maraschino liqueur. It is served shaken and chilled, often with a Maraschino cherry.
It is said to have been created for her in the 1920s by Eddie Woelke (who also created the well-known El Presidente cocktail) at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba on a trip she took to Havana with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford Cocktail Recipe
The Mary Pickford Cocktail was created for America's Sweetheart and first true movie star. And, like its namesake, the Mary Pickford is beautiful and sweet, but surprising strong.
Materials
- 2 ounces White Rum
- 1 ounces fresh-pressed Pineapple Juice
- 1/4 ounce Grenadine
- 6 drops Maraschino Liqueur
- Brandied Cherry to Garnish
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients and shake with ice. Strain into a chilled glass and garnish.
- Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with cracked ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe glass.
Notes
Recipe created for Miss Pickford in the 1920s by Eddie Woelke at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba and courtesy of Imbibe Magazine Website (Page Since Removed).
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ReMixology is a celebration of time-honored cocktails, the fascinating evolution of their formulas, and the inspiration they provide today’s craft bartenders.
This book serves as a re-introduction to ten iconic potions, from the Manhattan to the Whiskey Sour, to the Old Fashioned, to the Bloody Mary and more.
Recipes Include –
- Manhattan Nouveau
- Mary Pickford
- Bellini
- Savoy Champagne Cocktail
- Jamaican Coffee
- The Green Mary
- And Many More
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Over 250 Distinctive Drinks
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Recipe and information Courtesy of Imbibe Magazine Website (Page Since Removed). Pictures of Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are in the Public Domain and used Legally. Additional Information about the cocktail and Miss Pickford Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.
