Desert healer

The desert healer is a mixed drink made with fresh orange juice, gin, cherry brandy and ginger beer. The recipe appears in The Savoy Cocktail Book.[1] The Art of Mixing (1932) recipe replaces the ginger beer with ginger ale.[2] The cocktail's history goes back to the 1930s Vendome Club in Hollywood, when Los Angeles was still mostly undeveloped desert.[3]

Desert healer
Cocktail
TypeCocktail
Base spirit
  • Ginger beer
ServedOn the rocks: poured over ice
Standard garnishOrange wedge/peel
Standard drinkware
Highball glass
Commonly used ingredients
  • 3 oz. ginger beer
  • 3 oz. orange juice
  • 1 ½ oz. gin
  • ½ oz. cherry brandy

First the gin, brandy and orange juice are shaken with ice and strained into a highball over ice. Then the ginger ale is added, slowly, and stirred in.[4][5] It's garnished with an orange wedge or orange peel, and cherry, and served in a highball glass.[6]

References
  1. The Savoy Cocktail Book
  2. The Art of Mixing (1932)
  3. DeGroff, Dale (14 July 2010). The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes. ISBN 9780307762276.
  4. "Desert Healer Cocktail Recipe".
  5. "Desert Healer Cocktail".
  6. "Desert Healer".


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