How to Make a Hanky Panky, a Gin Cocktail as Bracing as It Is Seductive

Yeah, it's called the 'Hanky Panky,' but get your mind out of the gutter.

Actor and theater producer Sir Charles Hawtrey needed some magic when he wandered into the American Bar at London’s Savoy Hotel in the early 1920s, looking for a drink. “Coley,” he said, “I’m half dead. What can you do to make me quite alive?”

The “Coley” in question was Ada “Coley” Coleman, head bartender at the Savoy and, at the time, perhaps the most famous female bartender in the world. Her father died in 1899 when she was 24, and being unmarried found herself with a sudden and somewhat urgent need for a job. She got hired at a London hotel arranging flowers, then moved to the bar, and then ultimately transferred to the big leagues, to the American Bar at the elegant Savoy Hotel.

But back to Hawtrey, and his moribundity. He was, according to Coleman, “one of the best judges of cocktails that I knew,” and so she gave him something she’d been working on for a while: Equal parts

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