Served Straight up; without ice | ||
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Preparation Shake together over ice. Strain into cocktail glass and serve chilled. Similar Golden dream, Bronx, Stinger, Alabama Slammer, Blue Hawaii |
The Paradise is an IBA official cocktail, and is classified as a "pre-dinner" drink, an apéritif.
The earliest known in-print recipe for the Paradise Cocktail was written by Harry Craddock. This cocktail is prepared using gin, apricot brandy (apricot liqueur), and orange juice in a 2:1:1 ratio, with a splash of lemon juice.

In popular culture

The Paradise cocktail plays a key part in the 1933 Warner Bros. romantic film One Way Passage as the drink of the two star-crossed lovers played by Kay Francis and William Powell.




References
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