• 1 Dash Lemon Juice
  • 2/3 Gin
  • 1/6 Grand Marnier
  • 1/6 Italian Vermouth

Shake well and serve in cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.

This Cocktail was created by Harry Craddock, for the Leap Year celebrations at the Savoy Hotel, London, on February 29th, 1928. It is said to have been responsible for more proposals than any other cocktail that has ever been mixed.


This recipe originally appeared on page
94
of the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book