The Dale/David Project stumbles into the second tenth of the project tonight with the Red Lion Cocktail (not to be confused with the Red LOIN Cocktail, which I promise to develop for all of you cocktailian love birds in the time leading up to St. Valentine's Day).

In The Gospel According to Dale, the Red Lion was created in the 1930's and was widely used as a promotional item for Booths Gin after winning a 1935 cocktail competition; more recently it has been used successfully as a marketing tool for Grand Marnier. It consists of Grandma, dry gin, fresh lemon juice and orange juice, in a ration of 2:2:1:1. Shaken and strained into a chilled cocktail glass, it is garnished with the proprietary Dale DeGroff flamed orange peel.

According to DDG, it was originally served in a glass rimmed with lemon and sugar, but I forewent this step, not wanting to, um, spoil my dinner (or my cocktail)

I did not find any other citations for the Red Lion in any of my manuals, though there is a different drink with the same name in the South American Gentleman's Companion, the lesser known book by mid 20th C beverage bloviator Charles H. Baker Jr. The version in the SAGC consists of rum, curacao, lemon juice, grenadine, angostura bitters and egg white. This version is garnished with a "pineapple stick."