Hanky-Panky
Flavour
- Taste
- Sweet
- Colour
- Red
- Style
- Short drink
Ingredients
- Gin45 ml
- Sweet Red Vermouth45 ml
- Fernet7.5 ml
Served
- Glass
- Martini glass
- Ice
- Served up
- Garnish
- Orange twist
- Technique
- Stir
Method
Stir the gin, sweet red vermouth and fernet with ice until cold, strain into a chilled cocktail glass and twist orange peel over it.
About this drink
Mixed by Ada Coleman at the American Bar of the Savoy in London in the early twentieth century. The story goes that an actor tasted it and declared it the real hanky-panky, and the name stuck. The touch of fernet is what pulls the sweet vermouth back.