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Ping Pong Cocktail

Daly's Ping Pong Cocktail is a split-base Tom-gin-and-Scotch cocktail sharpened with wormwood bitters and ginger cordial.

bitter · ginger · smoke · citrus · formal · aperitif

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Fine shaved ice.

Variants (5)

Daly's Bartenders' Encyclopedia by Tim Daly (1903, p.121)

0.33 jiggerScotch whisky — Scotch whiskeybase
0.67 jiggerTom gin base
2 dasheswormwood bitters — Source says two or three dashes.base
1Cherry garnish
Orange peel — Twist a piece on top.garnish
1 dashginger cordial modifier
ice — fine shaved iceother
  1. Stir the wormwood bitters, ginger cordial, Tom gin, Scotch whiskey, and fine shaved ice well.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass, add a cherry, twist orange peel on top, and serve.

Garnish: Cherry and expressed orange peel

Ice: Fine shaved ice

The Hoffman House Bartender's Guide by Charles S. Mahoney (1905, p.155)

3 dasheslemon juice base
0.5 jiggersloe gin base
1Cherry garnish
0.5 jiggercreme yvette — Cream-Yvettemodifier
ice — fine iceother
  1. Mix the lemon juice, sloe gin, creme Yvette, and fine ice.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass, add a cherry, and serve.

Garnish: Cherry

Ice: Fine ice

The Buffet Blue Book by John H. Considine (1912, p.44)

3 dasheslemon juice acid
0.5 mixing glassice base
1 jiggersloe gin base
3 dashesorange bitters bitter
pineapple — Add pineapple and serve.garnish
3 dashesgum syrup sweetener
  1. Stir the ice, lemon juice, gum syrup, orange bitters, and sloe gin well in a mixing glass.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass, add pineapple, and serve.

Garnish: Pineapple

Ice: Ice

Bartenders' Guide: How to Mix Drinks by Wehman Bros. (1912, p.18)

0.5 glassice — Cracked icebase
sloe gin — Sloe ginbase
2 dashorange bitters — Orange bittersbitter
1 wholeCherry — Cherrygarnish
quantityvermouth — Vermouthmodifier
2 dashgum syrup — Gumsweetener
  1. Partly fill the glass with cracked ice, add the vermouth, gum, orange bitters, and sloe gin, stir in the manner of a Manhattan, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a cherry, and serve.

Ice: Ice

Bartenders' Manual by Bartenders Association of America (1913, p.22)

3 dashlemon juice — Lemon juicebase
0.5 jiggersloe gin — Sloe ginbase
1 wholeCherry — Cherrygarnish
0.5 jiggercreme yvette modifier
ice — Fine iceother
  1. Mix with fine ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and add a cherry.

Garnish: Cherry

Ice: Fine ice

See also: Sloe Gin Cocktail, Japanese Cocktail

Source warns not to get too sweet and attributes the drink to James E. Bennett as the 1903 Police Gazette medal winner.