Gin Cocktails, page 2
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Elderflower & Raspberry
Elderflower and raspberry is one of those pairings that sounds like a summer dessert and turns out to be considerably drier than expected, mostly because the tonic underneath is
Elderflower Collins
The Elderflower Collins is a Tom Collins with the sugar upgraded to blossom. Gin, lemon and soda are unchanged; twenty millilitres of elderflower liqueur stands where the syrup
English Garden
The English Garden is what it says on the glass: gin, elderflower, pressed apple and mint shaken into a long drink that tastes of the country it is named for. It has no inventor
Enzoni
The Enzoni is a Negroni spliced with a sour, and the graft is five muddled grapes. Gin and Campari come from the first family, lemon and sugar from the second, and the grapes hold
Fitzgerald
The Fitzgerald is proof that a modern classic can be four ingredients old. Dale DeGroff built it at the Rainbow Room in the 1990s when a guest asked for a gin drink that was not a
Fluffy Duck
The Fluffy Duck is the advocaat bottle’s night out: Dutch custard liqueur lifted with gin and orange, lengthened with soda into a 1970s party classic whose name describes the
Ford Cocktail
The Ford is the 1890s martini at its most courteous: Old Tom gin and dry vermouth at equal strength, seasoned with a barspoon of Bénédictine and orange bitters, from George
French 75
The French 75 was created at Harry's New York Bar in Paris in 1915 and named after the French 75mm field gun, the defining artillery piece of the First World War on the Western
Gibson
The Gibson is a Martini with one substitution: a cocktail onion in place of the lemon twist or olive. That substitution is the entire definition of the drink, and the source of a
Gimlet
The Gimlet is the Royal Navy in a coupe. In 1867 the Merchant Shipping Act made lime rations compulsory aboard British ships, and in the same year Lauchlin Rose of Leith patented
Gin & It
The Gin & It is the martini’s English aunt: gin and Italian sweet vermouth, the It of the name, poured together with ceremony and, in the classic London reading, no ice at all. It
Gin & Tonic
The Gin & Tonic is medicine that stayed for the party. Quinine, the bitter bark extract that treated malaria across the British Empire, was so foul in solution that officers of
Gin Basil Smash
The Gin Basil Smash is the modern classic with a precise birthday: July 2008, Le Lion in Hamburg, where Jörg Meyer muddled a fistful of basil into a gin sour and watched the
Gin Cocktail
The Gin Cocktail is what the word cocktail meant before it meant anything else. The definition printed in 1806 was specific: spirit, sugar, water and bitters, and nothing else
Gin Fizz
The Gin Fizz is the sour family’s effervescent branch and one of the golden age’s defining orders: gin, lemon and sugar shaken hard and fired into a small glass with soda, drunk
Gin Rickey
The Gin Rickey is gin, fresh lime juice and soda water over ice, and there is no sugar in it of any kind. That absence is the whole drink. It is what separates a Rickey from a
Gin Sling
The Gin Sling is one of the oldest cocktail formats in existence. Jerry Thomas documented it in his 1862 Bartenders Guide, but the sling predates him by at least a century, with
Gin Sour
The Gin Sour is the sour family’s plainest statement and one of its oldest: spirit, lemon and sugar, the template Jerry Thomas codified in 1862 applied to the botanical spirit,
Hanky Panky
Ada Coleman ran the American Bar at the Savoy from 1903 to 1926, the first and for nearly a century the only woman to hold the post, and mixed for Mark Twain, the Prince of Wales
Income Tax
The Income Tax is a Bronx with two dashes of Angostura in it. Gin, both vermouths, fresh orange juice, and then a small levy of bitters entered against the sweetness. The name is
Jasmine
The Jasmine is the modern classic that performs a magic trick: gin, Campari, orange liqueur and lemon, and the finished drink tastes, unmistakably and to everybody who tries it,
Last Word
The Last Word is one of the great equal-parts cocktails: gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, and fresh lime juice in identical measures, shaken and served up. No component
Left Bank Martini
The Left Bank Martini puts dry white wine where the vermouth would go. Gin leads, elderflower liqueur supplies the sweetness and the perfume, and a crisp unoaked white does the
London Calling
London Calling is a gin sour with fino sherry in it, and the sherry is doing the job salt does in cooking. Fifteen millilitres is not enough to taste as sherry. It is enough to