Tipperary cocktail is a classic cocktail published in Harry MacElhone’s 1923 ABC of Mixing Drinks, calling for 1/3 Gordon’s gin, 1/3 Noilly Prat French vermouth, 1/6 of orange juice, 1/6 grenadine, and 2 sprigs of fresh mint.

Years later, Harry Craddock published the same recipe in his 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book, but as a Tipperary No.2. This, because is come up with a Tipperary No.1, which seems to be his original calling for equal parts of Irish whisky, Italian vermouth and Green Chartreuse.

The U.K.B.G. 1937 Approved Cocktails published and adapted the Harry MacElhone recipe, while the Internation Bartender Association published and adapted the Harry Craddock recipe. 

Like that, we must take into consideration both recipes.

I wondered about the name and Tipperary is a town in Ireland in which the No.1 recipe makes the match using Irish whisky.

We can read in Albert S. Crockett’s 1935 Old Waldorf-Astoria about Tipperary cocktail that “Invented long before the wartime song of that name was heard, so that it must be considered a direct namesake of an Irish county, and so-called by a fond exile.”