Mary Pickford (cocktail)

Mary Pickford
IBA Official Cocktail
Type Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume
Standard drinkware Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients*
  • 6 cl white rum
  • 6 cl fresh pineapple juice
  • 1 cl grenadine
  • 1 cl Maraschino
Preparation Shake and strain into a chilled large cocktail glass

A 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. Named for Canadian-American film actress Mary Pickford (1892–1979), it is said to have been created for her in the 1920s by either Eddie Woelke[1] or Fred Kaufmann at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba on a trip she took to Havana with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Mary Pickford Cocktail". Imbibe Magazine. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Thompson, Kester (2011). Cocktails, Cocktails, and More Cocktails. Watertown, MA: Imagine Pub. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-60734-423-0.