In 1923, the daily newspaper The Boston Herald ran a contest asking readers to came up with a new word to describe the term given to those who clandestinely sipped spirits throughout Prohibition.

The word was chosen on the 15^th January 1924 out of 25,000 entries.

Scofflaw is a cocktail truly born during the Prohibition Era. Defensors and opposition of the law argue that the government doing an act prohibited is not the exercise of personal liberty.

This cocktail is usually credit to Harry MacElhone at his Harry’s New York Bar in Paris.

However, on January, 20^th 1924 the Sunday edition of the Chicago Tribune writes about a Scofflaw Cocktail invented at Maxim’s de Paris. This cocktail recipe is made of three parts of rye, two parts French vermouth, a dash of lemon juice and a dash of grenadine.