Mary Pickford (cocktail)
Sweet rum cocktail
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A Mary Pickford is a Prohibition Era cocktail made with white rum, fresh pineapple juice, grenadine, and Maraschino liqueur. It is served shaken and chilled, often with a Maraschino cherry.
TypeCocktail
Ingredients
- 4.5 cl white rum
- 4.5 cl fresh pineapple juice
- 0.5 cl Grenadine
- 0.75 cl Maraschino
Base spiritRum
Websiteiba-world.com/iba-cocktails/ 
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| Type | Cocktail |
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| Ingredients |
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| Base spirit | Rum |
| Website | iba-world |
| Standard drinkware | Cocktail glass |
| Served | Straight up: chilled, without ice |
| Preparation | Shake and strain into a chilled large cocktail glass |
History
Named for Canadian-American film actress Mary Pickford (1892–1979), it is said to have been created for her in the 1920s by either Eddie Woelke[1] or Fred Kaufmann at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba on a trip she took to Havana with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.[2]
