Ward Eight

Name: Ward Eight
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 tsp Grenadine; 60 ml Rye Whiskey; 1 sli Orange; 15 ml Orange Juice; 15 ml Lemon Juice; 1 Maraschino Cherry

Rye whiskey shaken with orange and lemon juice and a teaspoon of grenadine, finished with a maraschino cherry and an orange slice. A balanced, fruity whiskey sour. Credited to Locke-Ober Cafe in Boston, MA, 1896.

The Ward Eight dates to 1896 at Locke-Ober Cafe in Boston, where it was made to toast the Democrat Martin Lomasney's win in the campaign for the Legislature. Robert Vermeier's "Cocktails How to Mix Them" printed it in 1922, though PDT points to an earlier mention in "The Cocktail Book - A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen" from 1915.

Method

Shaken

Glass

cocktail

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Citrus

Fruity

Sour

Sweet

Recipe Variations