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Sour · Shaken · Historical · complexity 1/5

Quarter-Deck Cocktail

Harry of Ciro's Quarter-Deck Cocktail combines lime juice, rum, and sherry.

sour · oaky · dry · aperitif · formal

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (2)

Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails by Harry of Ciro's (1923, p.71) — Harry of Ciro's 1923

1 teaspoonfullime juice — Lime Juicebase
0.75 glassrum base
0.5 glasssherry modifier
  1. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

This matters because it preserves a rum-and-sherry citrus branch in the London 1923 field.

The value lies in the sherry acting as a real secondary structural component rather than a few dashes.

Barflies and Cocktails by Harry McElhone and Wynn (1927, p.66) — Barflies 1927

1 teaspoonfullime juice base
0.33 partrum base
0.33 partsherry modifier
  1. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.

This matters because it preserves a compact rum-and-sherry side branch in the interwar short-drink field.

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See also: Planter's Cocktail, Pegu Club Cocktail