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Shirley Temple

The original mocktail

Glass Highball
Method Built
Garnish maraschino cherry

The original mocktail. Ginger ale sweetened with grenadine, finished with a cherry. Named after the child actress in 1930s Hollywood — a Beverly Hills bartender wanted her to have something fancy to order while her parents had proper cocktails.

Ingredients

  • 5 oz Ginger Ale
  • 1/2 oz Grenadine
  • 1/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice

Method

Fill a highball with ice. Pour ginger ale to three-quarters full. Add grenadine. Drop in a maraschino cherry. A squeeze of lime is traditional but optional.

Sourced from Hollywood 1930s (Chasen's / Brown Derby attribution); canonical form per Wikipedia, Liquor.com.