Hanky Panky

Ada Coleman’s Savoy classic: gin and vermouth straightened out with a splash of Fernet-Branca.

• Gin45 ml
• Sweet vermouth45 ml
• Fernet-Branca7.5 ml
• Orange peelto garnish

Stir the gin, vermouth and Fernet with ice until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe, express an orange peel over the surface and drop it in.

CREATED

1921

CREATOR

Ada “Coley” Coleman

STATE

United Kingdom

LOCATION

London, England

Ada “Coley” Coleman created the Hanky Panky in the early 1900s at the Savoy’s American Bar in London, most likely in 1921, for actor Sir Charles Hawtrey. It blends gin and sweet vermouth with a dash of Fernet-Branca, and appears in Harry Craddock’s 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book. Coleman ran the American Bar from 1903 until Craddock replaced her in 1926.