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Floradora
Gin, lime and raspberry syrup, lengthened with ginger.
Go to the recipe ↓The Floradora is a gin buck: gin, lime juice and raspberry syrup in a tall glass, finished with a ginger mixer. The two versions below differ in method and mixer. One is shaken, strained into a Collins glass and topped with ginger beer. The other is built and stirred over ice in a highball glass and topped with ginger ale. Buy the mixer that matches the version you plan to make.
Punch: shaken, ginger beer
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
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Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Put the gin, lime juice and raspberry syrup in a cocktail shaker, and keep the ginger beer aside.
- Add ice and shake until the mix is well chilled.
- Strain into a Collins glass.
- Top with ginger beer.
Garnish A lime wheel and a raspberry on a pick
- Alba Huerta of Julep in Houston created this version. It makes one drink.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Cocktail Virgin: built, ginger ale
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Fill a highball glass with ice.
- Add the gin, raspberry syrup and lime juice to the glass.
- Stir to combine.
- Top with ginger ale.
- Garnish, then add a straw.
Garnish A lime wedge
Recipe source: cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com ↗
Match the syrup to the pour
The shaken version uses more lime juice than raspberry syrup. The built version reverses that and uses more syrup than lime. Its pour was set for Green Street Grill's house raspberry syrup, which is only lightly sweetened and less sugary than 1:1 simple syrup. If you use a sweeter raspberry syrup, half an ounce may suit that recipe better.