#8 Cocktail: Aviation

      The Aviation cocktail was created by Hugo Ensslin, head bartender at the Hotel Wallick in New York, in the early twentieth century. The published recipe for the drink appeared in Ensslin's 1916 "Recipes for Mixed Drinks.
       Harry Craddock's influential "Savoy Cocktail Book" omitted the creme de violette, calling for a mixture of two-thirds dry gin, one-third lemon juice and two dashes maraschino liqueur.
  In my cocktail I tried to follow the original recipe using a violet liqueur

2 ounces dry gin

1/2 ounce maraschino liqueur

1/2 fresh lemon juice

1/4 violet liqueur (optional)