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Sour · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Three Mile Limit Cocktail

A two-spirit sour of cognac, Bacardi, lemon, and grenadine.

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (2)

L'Art du Shaker by Dominique Migliorero (1925, p.66)

2 dashlemon juice — Lemon juiceacid
0.33 partBacardi rum base
0.67 partcognac — Cognacbase
2 dashGrenadine — Grenadinebase
  1. Shake cold and serve.

The source attributes this to Chips, barman at the New York Bar, Paris.

Barflies and Cocktails by Harry McElhone and Wynn (1927, p.79) — Chips / Harry's New York Bar

1 dashlemon juice — Lemon Juiceacid
0.33 partBacardi rum — Bacardi Rumbase
0.33 partbrandy base
1 teaspoonfulGrenadine base
  1. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.

This matters because it preserves another explicitly Prohibition-era Paris cocktail with Bacardi already embedded in the joke drink layer.

See also: Scoff-law Cocktail, Tanglefoot Cocktail