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White Satin

Method

With equal parts gin and grapefruit juice, this cocktail recipe from James Beard’s 1940-era Hors d’Oeuvre and Canapés scales easily to serve a party of one or 100. Beard described it as “a great Prohibition cocktail.”

½ gin
½ fresh grapefruit juice

Shake well with plenty of ice and strain into glasses.

Yield

1 cocktail