Have a Heart

4,5 cl Catz® Dry Gin
2,25 cl Swedish Punch
2 Dashes Monin Grenadine
Juice of ½ lime

Mixing Technique: Cocktail shaker
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: Cocktail cherry & pineapple
Method:
Shake well with shaved ice and double-strain into a pre-chilled cocktail glass. Serve with a cocktail cherry and a wedge of pineapple.

2019-03-06T15:58:12+01:00By Patrick Gavin Duffy|Categories: Party Cocktails, Signature Cocktails|

Historical Perspective

The Have a Heart Cocktail was first published in Patrick Gavin Duffy's 1934 The Official Mixer's Manual. Possibly created by Duffy, it takes its name from the eponymous movie Have a Heart, starring Jean Parker and James Dunn. Have a Heart is a 1934 American drama film directed by David Butler and written by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. Have a Heart was released on September 7, 1934, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Jean Parker (born Lois Mae Green, pictured right) was an American film and stage actress. Parker landed her first screen test while still in high school. She acted opposite well-known actors like Katharine Hepburn, Robert Donat, Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, and Laurel and Hardy. Jean Parker appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966, Parker's film debut came in Divorce in the Family (1932), and her last film appearance was Apache Uprising, in 1966. Jean Parker was married four times and had one son, Robert Lowery Hanks. Parker passed away in Woodland Hills (California, USA), on November 2005, age 90. The Have a Heart Cocktail provides an intriguing combination of dry gin and Swedish punch, with pomegranate grenadine and lime flavors.

Patrick Gavin Duffy

Bartender

Ballaghaderreen (County Roscommon), March 16, 1868

Ireland

Patrick Gavin Duffy (“Patsy” for friends), was the head bartender at New York’s Ashland House for 12 years before Prohibition, serving famous personalities like writers Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde, heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan and banker J.P. Morgan. In 1884, at age 16, Duffy left his native country to sail to America, initially moving in with his uncle in Jersey City. Not long after that Duffy moved across the river to New York and found employment as a busboy at the Ashland House hotel, on Fourth Avenue, where he was promoted to bar back after a year. Two years later Duffy was promoted to bartender, soon followed by him acquiring the position of head bartender. By 1894 Duffy opened his own bar, the Lyceum Café, right across the street from his old job, where he was followed by much of his clientele from the Ashland House. Around 1898 Duffy’s lease for his Lyceum café was not renewed, and the bar was torn down for development. Duffy worked for sometime after that at the Hotel Empire, 63rd Street, and Broadway, then running his bar nearby. In 1907 Duffy returned to Ballaghaderreen, going back into farming and eventually got himself elected magistrate. Duffy came back to New York in 1921 and settled in Brooklyn, where he managed a couple of rooming houses and worked on wrtiting his (unpublished) memoirs. After Prohibition, in 1934, Duffy published an extraordinary book on bartending and cocktails, The Official Mixer's Manual, presenting a classic collection of cocktails like Breakfast Cocktail, Casino Cocktail, Duke of Marlborough, Honolulu Cocktail, Jockey Club Cocktail, Racquet Club Cocktail, Savoy Hotel Cocktail, Waldorf Cocktail, etc. It is not sure when (and where) Patrick Gavin Duffy died, but possibly sometime around 1950.