The Clover Club – Spring has Sprung
It’s a new month, which means a new cocktail of the month. This time, I’m going way back to pre-prohibition times to bring back one that’s a favorite of mine.
The Origin
This is a pre-prohibition drink, so it’s got history behind it. In this case, it goes back to the late 19th century (post 1882), from the city of Philadelphia. The drink was named after a social club opened in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Which is where the drink is commonly believed to have been invented, for fairly obvious reasons. The first published recipes started showing up in the early 1900s, with mint being a common addition. The drink faded from popularity fairly quickly, and has been in obscurity for quite a while. Even now, it’s not a common sight on cocktail menus.
The Recipe
- 4 parts (2 ounces) gin
- 1 part (0.5 ounces) lemon juice
- 1 part (0.5 ounces) raspberry syrup or grenadine
- 1 egg white (can substitute aquafaba for vegetarian/vegan versions)
To make this drink, we’ll start a glass chilling (I stick mine into the freezer), then put the ingredients into an empty shaker. Then the next step is to do a dry shake. This is shaking without ice, the purpose here is to aerate the egg white and integrate it. Keep a firm grip on the shaker when doing the dry shake, unless you want a mess. After dry shaking for 15-30 seconds, add ice to the shaker, seal it and shake until chilled. Double strain (Hawthorne/Cobbler and fine mesh is the default) this into the chilled glass, and garnish with some fresh raspberries.
Variations
The Pink Lady is a big one, swapping out some of the gin for some applejack, and stepping up the lemon (that one prefers grenadine to raspberry syrup). As the original recipe calls for raspberry syrup, grenadine itself is a variation on the original recipe. You can also swap out the syrup for a different fruit syrup or even a jam/jelly/marmalade.
Batch Prepping
Anything with egg whites does not lend itself to batch prepping, as the foam (which is the draw of the egg white), will not last forever. If you’re planning on doing a large number of these though, I would highly recommend separating out the eggs ahead of time, and measure out ~2 tablespoons per drink.
Mocktail Version
Finally, I’ve given you something that can work as a non-alcoholic drink. Raspberries, lemon, and sugar go together quite well. Now, if I’m making large amounts of a mocktail version of this, I would likely mix up a raspberry lemonade ahead of time, and then add egg whites just before shaking. If you want to avoid the foam of the eggs (for health or dietary reasons) and want to lighten it up, you could top with pop, seltzer, or club soda.
I hope that you find a chance to give this drink a try during the month, and I hope you enjoy it a portion of how much I do. Enjoy the month, and feel free to leave any criticisms, complaints, or condemnations in the comments.
Looks like something Gavin Newsom would drink.
Are there any bartenders left there?
https://capolicylab.org/news/priced-out-new-research-reveals-who-is-leaving-california-where-they-go-and-whether-it-pays-off/
Speaking of, having you seen Carolla’s observation /bit about Newsom and his leg-crossing signal, and how he switches based on the audience? It’s funny. And who the fuckity fuck crosses their legs like that?! (For the penis-wielding, and Winston’s Mom don’t count.)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wX2FszBvxjM
(Oooh. Auto correctly capitalized Mom, that time.)
(Knowingly, cuz it recognized I already typed “Winston’s” ahead of it. Not because I was talking about my mother. I don’t exactly like how everything with an electric pulse can correctly pick patterns, now. Mighty convenient, frightfully. *grrgle*)
My buddy who draws henti for a living crosses his legs like that.
I have to assume he’s like a Ken doll down there.
I read that as “grows hempti” and I thought I was out of the loop again.
The Pink Lady looks, predictably, remarkably girly. On that note: I kinda hope pink (stop capitalizing the fucking color, auto; it’s more important than the stage name) would go back to being a boys color, like it used to until IIRC the early-mid 20th century. Red is obviously a universal DANGER color. Blood. We get it. Pink is the kinder, gentler, not all-the-way variety, the polite rough ‘n tumble version for kids.
“The reversal was driven by post-WWII marketing, consumer demand for gender-specific baby clothes, and cultural trends like Mamie Eisenhower’s love for pink in the 1950s,” but this is interesting and would devastate AWFLs today: “The association became firmly locked in by the 1980s, largely due to the rise of prenatal testing (ultrasounds) which allowed parents to know the sex of their baby, leading to increased demand for specifically colored clothes and toys.”
Girly blue, associated with the Virgin Mary. (The virgin (stop capitalizing THAT, too!) part of that makes sense, I s’pose.)
“Stop capitalizing”
My autocorrect has been going increasingly rogue. Capitalizing random words and then insisting it stay that way, even after I change it.
“Were” becomes “we’re” and vie-versa. And some really odd ones, like type 2 letters and a whole word appears while I type the rest.
Dictation is less useful. I used to dictate any time I could, but now it doesnt take punctuation like it used to so typing myself is often faster than fixing the errors.
I am not sure how something like this can get worse over time. AI can now easily pass the Turing test, by my spell-check gets confused?
Apple device?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-autocorrect-update-7659d618?st=vVZV4T&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Mojeaux would like a word with you. 😉
Lord yes. Apple sucks at it.
Apple keeps getting worse in autocorrect over time.
Any recommendations on the gin? Plymouth, London Dry, something weird? I don’t think I’d try Hendricks in this one…
Well, the drink originated in Philadelphia, so you should use gin made in Philadelphia.
https://bluecoatgin.com/
Beefeater Gin was my go-to for a mid-grade. Not a big $ bite and it’s “Good Enough,” just like that amazing Korean burger joint’s slogan.
The two gins that I stock at home are Beefeater (for G&Ts, Negronis, Gin Rickeys, Corpse Reviver #2s, and Singapore Slings) and Plymouth (for Aviations, Ramos Gin Fizzes, French 75s, and the occasional Martini.)
There are lots of different London Dry Gins, and some are probably better, but I don’t think that anything hits the price-performance point of Beefeater.
Haven’t been able to go out to meet folk cuz $, cuz booze bad for me, and cuz folk don’t just go out to meet folk. ‘Spose that’s always true, but miss going out to the bars in Korea and you’re always, always gonna find someone to talk to. Fellow ex-pats are like soldiers, in the same much together, and fuck you meet folk fast and anywhere. Could be an actual Nazi and I’d chat with ’em to ‘escape’ into English.
When I *do* go exploring out, my plan is to pull a Lennie Briscoe and get a club soda w lime. (@Rhy (and others?)) Club soda is fucking disgusting by itself, and along w the lime for looks, is a slow-drink that looks like a ‘proper’ drink.
Club soda when Perrier is not available, straight up. No foolin’ around.
Put a lime in it and nobody asks questions
Sparkling water is the fucking worst. For me, literally undrinkable. I’ll spit it out. (Politely swallow and not make a scene. I’d be a great hooker.) Same with sweetened ice tea. Yuck. Unsweet. With lemon, if possible. Other than that? Just go for a coke and be done with it.
(Ah. Yes, “coke” includes Pepsi, root beer, Sprite, and so on.)
OK, then Diet Coke (with or sans lime)?
I switched over to LaCroix from sodas this year. I wanted the change, so I stopped being horrified by lack of sweetness and chemicals. I grew a taste for it. It is definitely an acquired taste after guzzling sodas for years.
I switched from diet soda to Topo Chico (or San Pellegrino as a second choice).
Gerolsteiner for me. Or even straight tonic water.
Sweet tea is delicious. Iced tea is delicious. Hot tea is delicious. Herbal “tea” I can do without.
Mm, Gerolsteiner. Much too salty for Evan.
https://www.drinkhint.com/collections/water ? Flat, flavored, not much use at a bar.
Before the internet we vastly over estimated the percentage of extroverts because all of us had to leave our houses for various purposes and as a result could be convinced to go out for entertainment purposes as well. Then we got the internet and the one good thing to come from Covid, contactless food delivery and we realized it was possible to avoid other people almost entirely. You 5 extroverts can hang out together at a bar. The rest of us are in our climate controlled caves, comfortably letting ourselves go.
Throws another chunk of wood in the furnace.
I had to use the phone yesterday to call Roto-Rooter to clean out a drain. $150 lighter but today he was in and out in a 1/2 hour. Then the UPS guy delivered a package but no interaction.
I’m worn out from all the interpersonal activity.
Save some energy for September.
Because I has a partial bottle of cherry brandy taking up space, I swapped out the rye for Gosling’s and invented the “seal hunter.” It actually makes a bit more sense than the original.
Paging DEG – recall our driver from MA who crashed into the tollbooth?
Eugene Mirman, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ actor and comedian, injured in fiery New Hampshire car crash
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/voice-actor-bobs-burgers-injured-new-hampshire-car-crash-rcna266337
Waves Good bye to Bondi.
Yeah – on CNBC now.
Waiting for the pictures of her spouse engaged in various activities.
A top contender currently being discussed is Lee Zeldin, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency and previously served as a congressman from New York.
And it was a Lucid…
Ayotte bragging about the state helping save the guy from a risk that the state is well aware of. Something something broken legs and crutches.
And Jeff!
You can’t say that!
The Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey for conduct detrimental to the team Monday, hours after he posted a lengthy video rant on social media about religion and other topics that included anti-gay sentiments.
Ivey has gone live on his Instagram account more frequently in the past week, posting at least three lengthy videos after he was shut down for the rest of the season by the team because of injury last Thursday. On Monday morning, he called out the NBA for promoting Pride Month, saying it celebrates “unrighteousness.”
“The world proclaims LGBTQ, right?” Ivey said during the video stream. “They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA does, too. They show it to the world. They say, ‘Come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.’ They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it on the streets. Unrighteousness.”
I’m sure the ACLU will defend him. They believe in freedom of speech.
How about stop pandering to groups who don’t like you anyway?
Ivey was outspoken about his religious beliefs in Detroit, but his intensity ratcheted up during his tenure in Chicago, which agitated some team staff members who described Ivey as “preachy” around the locker room, sources told ESPN. His social media rants often lasted nearly an hour and ventured into a variety of topics, including his own bouts of depression, finding religion, “wicked” music lyrics, anti-Catholicism, abortion and asides about his love for apple pie.
But can he jump?
“Preachy” = “won’t shut up about stuff that isn’t currently trendy”
Trump just fired Bondi.
That’s good, but I won’t celebrate until we find out about her replacement.
See above for speculation.
I heard it might be Alina Hubba Hubba.
Maybe, and this is just a thought, we could try picking people based on some quality other than appearance?
“President Donald Trump said Thursday that Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House…”
*SNORT* Bitches, please. Ask Bobby Kennedy how that worked out.
Not imprisoning sufficient numbers of gun owners?
Long past time.
Finally some not terrible news. Good riddance to that corrupt, do nothing skank.
What were Bondi’s egregious sins, other than whatever Epstein-related heresies she may have been guilty of?
I can’t be bothered to keep track of this Inside Washington idiocy.
Now I’m wondering if Kremlinologists were as stupidly partisan as the Trump Whisperers are.
I asked google what sins she committed.
Google replied with mostly ethics issues from the old days in Florida.
Current issues are being friends with the kinds of people and being mean to quiltbags special interests.
And Epstein of course
Her role of keeping the Epstein stuff hidden is now redundant thanks to this war.
She had a number of fumbles, including on Epstein. Overall she had poor public relations and made the administration look bad. Not sure what her track record was on prosecutions either. The public relations fumbles alone are worth cutting her loose.
Continuing cases left over from Biden era was some of her biggest missteps.
Epstien, whatever…can’t prosecute if there is nothing there regardless of the therioes floating about.
However, it might be she was doing/allowing some blocking work and thus Trump’s view that its a nothingburger.
Allowing some of the firearm cases to continue for me was more egregious and not really getting down to the second most loss of civil liberties in my life time to go by with a ‘we just didnt know at the time’
Not just continuing but filing such bullshit as demanding membership rolls of SAF.
The influencer Epstein release debacle had her starting from a deficit position.
She’s about to lose the birthright citizenship case. Tariffs results are mixed at best.
According to CNN it’s because Trump was upset she hadn’t gone after Trump’s enemies hard enough through the legal system.
So who the hell knows.
She fucked up that USA appointment (seems to be a common issue with Trump 1 & 2). And at least two of her USA appointees are grandstanders and media hogs.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2039758917652353224
As plausible as anything else.
Personally, and what I’ve seen on X, it was her tendency to bluster about “Oh we got ’em now, indictments incoming any second, better watch out!” and then do absolutely nothing.
Best unconfirmed rumor: she tipped off Swallwell to an upcoming investigation.
That’s what the X link I posted pointed at.
Ha:
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-pam-bondi-not-quite-hot-enough-to-be-this-bad-at-her-job
Look at Marco. Very average features, short stature, weird shoes, but so good at his job. Many jobs, really.
“It’s pretty harsh, but at least you know where you stand,” said Vice President JD Vance. “I really was in the tank for a bit when Trump thought those memes were real, and I had actually gotten that fat. Fortunately, we’ve come around.”
This is some of the realest stuff the Bee has ever published.
Just dropping this here
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2039215894854041883
The white liberal denouncing the evil racist joke (made by the Japanese person) is comedy gold
Saw that. Also there appears to be a lot of auto-translated Japanese X crossing over into English feeds.
X’s translation isn’t bad, although Google has stepped up its game massively from 5 years ago.
In my head canon this is the beginning of a time line in which we are forming the new Axis of anti-wokeness, Argentina, Poland, Hungary and Italy are invited as well.
Musk actually tweeted about it as well.
Just look at this gem!
https://x.com/hibiku_bot_/status/2039622654953664709
China is learning how to play our game.
https://x.com/i/status/2039680269196865884
Let me know when Takaichi starts arming Chinese rebels.
First she needs to start arming the JDF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mamor_cover_models
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Japan is what I would call a Shrodinger nuclear power. As long as they do not urgently need to be a nuclear power they will never build a nuclear weapon because it would be culturally unacceptable. But magically if they ever actually need to have nukes it will turn out that they can go from absolutely never going to have nuclear weapons to having a hell of an arsenal in an astonishingly short time frame.
Reading about the Great Trump Oil Fiasco of ’26, I am seeing a pattern emerge. “Renewable energy” is apparently not subject to demand based price increases. While oil and gas and coal prices are spiking, solar panels and windmills just get cheaper and more plentiful, no matter how much demand increases. And they are not subject to any sort of potential geopolitical availability restrictions. They are truly miraculous. Once they are in place, they provide free unlimited electricity forever.
Physics is racist.
Oddly the more reliable and cost effective ‘renewable’ energy, hydro-electric is about as popular as nuclear with the green crowd.
I grew up with TVA. Hydro is great. Not so great for anyone who gets flooded out, but hey everyone else is happy.
Fuck the fishes.
Dumbfucks in Seattle have benefitted from low electrical rates due to hydro for decades. Then dumbfucks oppose any new dams, upgrades to existing dams, and want to tear down old dams. At the same time, they want to get rid of gas stoves, and replace gas furnaces with heat pumps and electric baseboard heat, and force people into all electric vehicles.
So let’s spike the demand while constricting the supply and see how that works out.
Overall she had poor public relations and made the administration look bad. Not sure what her track record was on prosecutions either. The public relations fumbles alone are worth cutting her loose.
Does anybody honestly believe NYT/WaPo/CNN et al (or the self anointed MAGA insiders and backstabbing courtiers, for that matter) would not have given the exact same treatment to any Trump AG up to and including Merrick Garland?
Is her replacement going to get a pass from the outrage mobs?
Politicians, and especially their sycophants and hangers-on, are the scum of the earth.
1 part (0.5 ounces) raspberry syrup or grenadine – no one has that stuff. But I do have mama pie’s cherry preserves which have lots of syrup alongside the fruit…
That might work for grenadine.
We have Rose’s Grenadine Syrup here in grocery stores. It’s common.
It’s even at Walmart:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rose-s-Cane-Sugar-Grenadine-Mixer-12-fl-oz-Bottle/40955800
Ew.
Ryan Lackey
@octal
Kind of amazing how little press coverage Artemis II has received, given how ambitious it is.
ⓘ Dogs don’t have thumbs
@MorlockP
I’m actively angry at this mission.
60 year technological regression, throwing away perfectly good engines that were reusable since 1980, costing infinite money, accomplishing nothing. A DEI stunt and a jobs program for mediocre engineers.
Disgusting.
The mission IS the problem.
It accomplishes absolutely nothing except to check out some hardware that will maybe fly again 2-3 times max, and which never should have existed.
It was obsolete before it was designed
https://x.com/MorlockP/status/2039517972490842323
was this Artemis thing debated here?
Yes. And it does look like cavemen designed it. Literally looked like space shuttle boosters from the 1980s strapped to a tiny 1960s looking space capsule. Meanwhile SpaceX has a reusable rocket that launches a freakin’ school bus into space.
I just hope NASA doesn’t kill anyone.
Good news is the toilet IS working now.
Also, I didn’t realize that they aren’t orbiting the moon. They are going around and doing a slingshot return immediately.
Unlike Apollo 8.
Yes, it’s a much larger distance, hence it takes a lot more days to accomplish. That was a question that popped up last night.
I am happy we are doing it, really! Just not happy it is a NASA mission. Private mission would be so much better.
Fuck you, operator-wannabees.
I’m sure these fraudsters filling out electronic forms are soooper-dangerous and/or about the flush the goddamn internet down the toilet if you hadn’t lived out your Rambo fantasies.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/us-news/feds-bust-hospice-in-shocking-early-morning-fraud-takedown/
Look, how else are you going to make enough money to live in California?
I’m sure they’re scum. I’m just completely over the whole “let’s fuck shit up without consequence” especially when the only risk is one of your brothers in blue NDing you. Which is probably why they used the saw instead of charges on the gate.
I agree with that. Totally uncalled for. Those people would have come out and surrendered. Shitty cop dramatics were not called for.
MEGging.
https://x.com/cdrsalamander/status/2039750553836601550?s=20
Sea of Sinbad
megger, please!
Bondi is officially out. I expected this months ago.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/02/breaking-bondi-fired-as-ag-n3813508
Fall on your sword, bitch!
More like hoisted on her own petard I think.
Schumer is saying it’s because she resisted release of the Epstein files. What idiots are going to overlook the fact that Schumer’s party, in power for four years, did squat with the same files? [Don’t answer -blatant hypocrisy is a requirement for holding political office and for voting for those who practice it.]
Smart political points to shed off some voters
Not that she resisted it – she just totally botched it in the worst way possible.
Also I screwed up Hoisted BY her own petard.
Wait, Schumer is saying Trump wanted the files released but Bondi stopped it?
Pretty good wrap up of issues with Bondi.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rumors-over-pam-bondi-ouster-swirlin
For our attorneys…
Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law.
https://x.com/IanSpeir/status/2039724650150994362?s=20
So, lawyers are above the law. Thanks and good to know if I ever go to Colorado
It truly saddens me, how quickly Colorado went down the tubes…
Me too. I love the countryside, and a lot of the people.
Jeez. That is so bad.
They will drown in lawsuits within a week.
Sure. Just like all those lawyers racing to challenge or sue over COVID restrictions. They will kneel before Zod and ask him to unzip his pants.
This is blocking lawyers from making a living unless they agree to break Federal laws. That will get a raise out of them.
Hey, the courts have already rule that click-through licensing is not enforceable . . . . .
Im assuming they mean their own lawyers right? Not private practicing lawyers?
The agreement shown in the tweet does not say that. It says you agree not to use information obtained through the site for that purpose unless compelled by subpoena or order. That is annoying and stupid, but not the same thing as forbidding attorneys from complying with Federal law
Ya just went through it. The X post is really conflating the issue
Actually you can disclose data if it is required by fed law or is required by state law or there is a court order.
The question is when can FedGov demand data from you but you are not required by law to provide it?
I think the idea would be that you cannot just volunteer the information. Like say your buddies with an ICE agent, and have an attorney log in account which he wants you to use to get info without having to go through channels.
The actual purpose of this is to signal virtue.
You’re buddies. Started to type your buddy is and age kicked in and took me off into illiteracy
Seems Trump admin had some weak solicitors in front of the Supremes on the birthright case.
Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law.
A loyalty oath! What will they think of next?
Seems Trump admin had some weak solicitors in front of the Supremes on the birthright case.
You can’t upend established precedent. That would be chaos.
Unless the novel legal argument is progressive. Then you have to upend established precedent. This whole thing is going to be decided by what the word “and” means isn’t it?