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Desert healer
Cocktail
TypeCocktail
Base spirit
  • Ginger beer
ServedOn the rocks: poured over ice
Standard garnishOrange wedge/peel
Standard drinkware
Highball glass
Commonly used ingredients
  • 3 oz. ginger beer
  • 3 oz. orange juice
  • 1 ½ oz. gin
  • ½ oz. cherry brandy

The desert healer is a mixed drink made with fresh orange juice, gin, cherry brandy and ginger beer. The recipe appears in The Savoy Cocktail Book. The Art of Mixing (1932) recipe replaces the ginger beer with ginger ale. The cocktail's history goes back to the 1930s Vendome Club in Hollywood, when Los Angeles was still mostly undeveloped desert.

First the gin, brandy and orange juice are shaken with ice and strained into a highball over ice. Then the ginger ale is added, slowly, and stirred in. It's garnished with an orange wedge or orange peel, and cherry, and served in a highball glass.

References

  1. The Savoy Cocktail Book
  2. The Art of Mixing (1932)
  3. DeGroff, Dale (14 July 2010). The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes. Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. ISBN 9780307762276.
  4. "Desert Healer Cocktail Recipe". 30 January 2015.
  5. "Desert Healer Cocktail".
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