We held an English garden party and celebration of gin on Sunday, a little knees-up we called An Afternoon in Mansfield Park. All I have to say is cheers to our guests! What style! What grace! What hats! What seersucker! And what a way you have with a cocktail shaker, fair totty!
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God save the Queen and God save Gin!
Tom Collins
2 oz gin (Beefeater or Hayman’s Old Tom)
1 oz lemon juice
2 tsp superfine sugar or ½ oz simple syrup
Soda
Add all ingredients except soda to a shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into rocks glass over ice and garnish with a lemon wheel. Serve.Summer Fruit Cup
1 ½ oz Plymouth gin
4 strawberries
3 basil leaves
¾ oz lemon juice
½ oz simple syrup
Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker &shake vigorously without ice. Add ice & shake again. Double-strain into highball glass over ice & garnish with strawberry & basil leaf. Serve.
Gin-Gin Mule1 ½ oz gin (Tanqueray or Beefeater)
¾ oz simple syrup
¾ oz lime juice
1 oz house-made ginger beer
4 leaves mint + garnish
Add all ingredients to shaker and shake vigorously with ice. Double-strain into rocks glass over ice and garnish with mint (and candied ginger if you have some). Serve.
The Last Word¾ oz gin (Tanqueray or Junipero)
¾ oz lime juice
¾ oz green chartreuse
¾ oz maraschino liqueur
Add all ingredients to shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve.
Y-U-U-U-U-M.
Pssst. LKN, I’m coming to NYC over the 4th of July.
-A
