Most Rickeys are made with the following recipe:

  • Use medium size glass
  • 1 Lump of Ice
  • The Juice of 1/2 Lime of 1/4 Lemon
  • Then add 1 glass of any Spirit or Liqueur fancied – Whisky, Gin, Rum, Bourbon, Calvados, Caperitif, etc.

Fill with Carbonated Water and leave rind of Lime or Lemon in glass.


This recipe originally appeared on page
203
of the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book