COCKTAIL · Classic cocktails
Clover Club
PUBLISHED · 19 Oct 2026
Gin, lemon and raspberry under a pink egg-white foam: a Philadelphia classic.
Gin, lemon and raspberry under a pink egg-white foam: a Philadelphia classic.
INGREDIENTS
- Gin60 ml
- Lemon juice20 ml
- Raspberry syrup20 ml
- Egg white1
- Raspberriesto garnish
Dry-shake the gin, lemon, raspberry syrup and egg white, then shake again with ice. Strain into a chilled coupe and garnish with raspberries.
- CREATED
- 1880s
- CREATOR
- Unknown
- STATE
- United States
- LOCATION
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Clover Club cocktail is named for a Philadelphia club founded in 1882 whose members met at the Hotel Bellevue. The first printed reference appears in 1901, when Waldorf-Astoria head wine man Michael Killackey listed a recipe with egg white, lemon, raspberry syrup and Plymouth gin. Albert Stevens Crockett later credited the Bellevue-Stratford, but the drink’s exact creator and date remain unknown.
✳Clover Club