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Scofflaw Cocktail at Colonial Liquor
 
 

 

 

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Scofflaw (Skofflaw) Cocktail

INGREDIENTS:
1 oz Canadian Whiskey
1 oz dry Vermouth
dash grenadine
1/4 oz lemon juice
dash Angostura Orange Bitters

Stir with ice, strain into cocktail glass.
Garnish with an orange twist.

Serve in chilled cocktail glass

Just for some more history on the word "Scofflaw"..
Scofflaw

 

 

History

The Bar:
Harry's New York Bar in Paris

The word "Scofflaw" has come to mean "A person who flouts the law, especially an unsustainable one." But such was not always the case. It was in 1923, when Delcevare King, a member of the Anti-Saloon League, posed a contest to create a new word in order to combat the continued drinking which was going on during American Prohibition. The new word was to be "which best expresses the idea of a lawless drinker, menace, scoffer, bad citizen., or whatnot, with the biting power of 'scab' or 'slacker.' The $200 prize elicited a huge response. On Jan. 16th, 1924, the Boston Herald announced the winning word a s"scofflaw", with the winnings shared by the two Boston area residents, Henry Irving Dale and Kate L Butler, who submitted it. This was not the end of the story however, in just a little over a a week, a salvo was launched from Harry's New York Bar in Paris, where they created a new drink and christened it the "Scofflaw"!