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Paradise

Gin with apricot brandy and a short pour of orange juice. Soft, fruity, and quietly strong.

Base: Gin
Glass: Coupe glass
Method: Shake
Strength: 19.08% ABV

Ingredients

30 mlGin1 swap
Any London dry ginhigh
Depends on the brand’s botanicals
20 mlApricot Brandy
15 mlFresh Orange Juice

How to make

Technique

Shake · 10–15s

Shaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Serve

Glass

Coupe glassAlso fine: Martini glass, Nick & Nora glass

Garnish

None

Taste & nutrition

19.08%ABV

159kcal

1.22Drinks

StrengthMedium

Sweet to dryBalanced

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Year1920s–30s

PlaceLondon, England

Created byPublished by Harry Craddock

The Paradise Cocktail — gin, apricot brandy and orange juice — appears in Harry MacElhone's 1922 book and again, refined, in Craddock's 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book. A dash of lemon sharpens the fruit. Soft, apricot-scented and easy-going, it is a charming pre-war gin drink. It rewards a good apricot liqueur.

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