(6 people)

  • 2 Glasses Gin
  • 2 Glasses French Vermouth
  • 1 Glass Grand Marnier

Before shaking add a dash of Absinthe.

*Not only the favourite drink, but also the one made famous, if not invented, by Richard William (“Deadwood Dick”) Clark, recently deceased (84): onetime Custer Scout, Pony Express rider, Deadwood Gulch stage-coach guard, inspiration for all the (64) Deadwood Dick novels of E. L. Wheeler; friend of Wild Westerners, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Poker Alice Tubbs, Calamity Jane, Madame Mustache and Diamond Dick Turner of Norfolk, Neb.: Clark is buried on Sunrise Mountain, overlooking Deadwood Gulch, S. Dak.


This recipe originally appeared on page
179
of the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book