2 Cocktail Recipes with this ingredient.
The Aviation appeared in Hugo Ensslin's 1916 'Recipes for Mixed Drinks' and is one of the great pre-Prohibition gin cocktails. Two unusual liqueurs — maraschino and crème de violette — give it an extraordinary pale lavender-blue color and floral, cherry complexity. For years it was made without the violette (it was hard to find), but Rothman & Winter revived domestic production. The violette is non-negotiable — without it you have a gin sour, not an Aviation.
The Last Word dates to the 1920s at the Detroit Athletic Club and was rescued from obscurity by Ted Saucier in his 1951 book 'Bottoms Up.' It's an equal-parts cocktail — gin, Green Chartreuse, Luxardo maraschino liqueur, and fresh lime juice — and possibly the most complex drink ever to emerge from such a simple formula. The Chartreuse brings an overwhelming burst of alpine herbs, balanced by the cherry sweetness of maraschino and the brightness of lime.