Clover Club

Difficulty: Medium   Prep time: 5 minutes

Prejudice against the Raspberry has long haunted this magnificent pre-prohibition cocktail. Yes its difficult to master, yes it contains Raspberry and yes it seduces the palate in a way that no other cocktail does. In its heyday the Clover Club was the preferred drink of pre-prohibition gentlemen. It emerged from a Philadelphia men's group called the Clover Club that met at the Bellevue- Stratfoed Hotel from the 1880's to the 1920's. The Clover Club cocktail was likely concocted around the turn of the century, and at first imbibed by club members: men in legal, literary, or business professions. When the hotelier of the Bellevue-Stratfoed, George Boldt, was recruited as proprietor for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the Clover Club cocktail made its way to New York.