Shirley Temple
Ginger ale and grenadine, built over ice, finished with a cherry.
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A Shirley Temple in a tall glass over ice, orange ginger ale with red grenadine settled at the bottom, garnished with a maraschino cherry
Serving
Drink spec, per drink
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Ingredients
110 ml ginger ale
12 ml grenadine
1 cherry a maraschino cherry (6 g)
- 110 ml ginger ale
- 12 ml grenadine
- 1 cherry a maraschino cherry (6 g)
Glass
Vessel
122 ml of liquid plus 230 ml of cubed ice occupies about 352 ml, inside the 400 ml the glass holds. The build fails if a recipe ever exceeds its stated vessel.
A batch needs a vessel that closes and fits a fridge shelf.
Method
2 steps · 30sFill a glass with ice, pour in the 110 ml ginger ale, then pour the 12 ml grenadine slowly over the back of a spoon so it sinks to the bottom.
Finish with the 1 cherry a maraschino cherry (6 g).
The grenadine is poured in last rather than stirred through, so it sinks and pools at the bottom of the glass instead of tinting the whole drink evenly; the layered look is the point.
Common pitfallStirred too soon, the drink turns a flat, uniform pink instead of showing the sunset gradient it is served for. A single light lift just before drinking is enough to mix it.
Keeping and make-ahead
This drink is made to order.
About
A child-actress-era mocktail claimed by three rival Hollywood restaurants, named for a star who said in her own later account that she had nothing to do with inventing it and did not particularly like it.
The drink dates to the mid-1930s, when child actress Shirley Temple was at the height of her fame, but its exact origin is contested among at least three places: Chasen's and the Brown Derby in Los Angeles, and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, all have a claim to having invented it 1 2. The most commonly repeated version of the story holds that a bartender mixed ginger ale, grenadine and a cherry for the young star so that she would have something to drink that looked like the cocktails the adults at her table were having 2.
Shirley Temple herself, by then a former actress serving as a US ambassador and using her married name, Shirley Temple Black, weighed in directly in a 1986 radio interview. Asked about the drink, she credited the Brown Derby specifically, said plainly that she "had nothing to do with it," and added that she disliked it, calling it "saccharine sweet" and "icky" 1. She noted with some resignation that she was served the drink everywhere she went regardless 1.
The classic build (ginger ale, grenadine and a maraschino cherry) has picked up regional variation over time; some versions substitute a lemon- lime soda for the ginger ale 2.
- 1Shirley Temple (drink)en.wikipedia.org
- 2Dry January iconic mocktail 'Shirley Temple' has fascinating historyfoxnews.com