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Spirit-forward · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

American Legion Cocktail

Chicote's American Legion is the gin and French-vermouth cocktail accented with kirsch and creme de cassis.

berry · dry · stone_fruit · aperitif · formal

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Ice pieces.

Variants (2)

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.108) — Pedro Chicote 1928

0.5 copitagin base
Kirschwasser — Kirschbase
creme de cassis — Crema cassismodifier
0.5 partFrench vermouth — Vermut francesmodifier
  1. Shake very well and serve in a cocktail glass.

Ice: Ice pieces

This matters because it preserves another cassis-and-kirsch aperitif edge in a Spanish interwar bar manual.

Cocktails Mundiales by Pedro Chicote (1947) — Chicote 1947, opening Cocktails Mundiales recipe run

7 dropskirsch base
0.5 copitaLondon dry gin — ginbase
7 dropscreme de cassis modifier
0.5 copitadry vermouth — French vermouthmodifier
  1. Prepare in a shaker with small pieces of ice. Shake very well and serve in a cocktail glass.

Ice: Small pieces of ice

See also: Aguirre Cocktail, Yokohama Cocktail