This is two years prior to when MacElhone is said to have re-worked his recipe at his new bar in Paris. When The Savoy's American Bar was being refurbished in 1927, Craddock is said to have placed a cocktail shaker with the ingredients for a White Lady in the brickwork being laid as part of the building work. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, was drinking at The Savoy and Craddock named the drink after her because she was a platinum blonde. MacElhone's claim to the creation of the gin-based White Lady is disputed by most, including London's The Savoy Hotel who say this now dominant version was first created at the hotel's The American Bar by Harry Craddock. This is reaffirmed in modern-day versions of his book by his family. MacElhone is said to have created the version of the White Lady we know today (with gin, triple sec and lemon juice) in 1929 while at his own Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France. This recipe is recorded in his 1922 Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails and repeated the following year as cocktail 274 in Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails. However, when Harry MacElhone, from Dundee, Scotland, first created the White Lady, while working at London's Ciro's Club in 1919, it consisted of equal parts brandy, crème de menthe and Cointreau, shaken and strained into a cocktail glass. While the merits of adding egg white and sugar may be debated by some the gin, triple sec and lemon trio are beyond reproach - although there are subtle variations as to their proportions. Many also add egg white and sugar syrup (as per my own White Lady recipe ). Shaken and served straight-up in a coupe glass, the White Lady cocktail is made with gin, triple sec and lemon juice.
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