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London Cocktail

Gin, orange juice and simple syrup, shaken and strained over a Ricard rinse.

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This London Cocktail is the version Green Street Grill served and CocktailVirgin published in 2008. It is shaken Bombay Dry Gin with fresh orange juice and simple syrup, strained into a cocktail glass that has been rinsed with Ricard, a pastis. The Ricard is the step to plan for: it isn't among the measured ingredients and has no stated amount, so add a bottle of pastis to your shopping list and use it to coat the glass, not as a pour into the shaker. A rye-and-whole-egg flip from Hugo Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for Mixed Drinks also goes by London Cocktail. We haven't given it a card because its published measures don't agree with each other.

Recipe 1 · cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com

Green Street Grill version, Ricard rinse

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.

Bombay Dry Gin
67%
Fresh Orange Juice
17%
Simple Syrup (1:1)
17%

Method as published

  1. Rinse a cocktail glass with Ricard before you mix the drink.
  2. Put the gin, orange juice and simple syrup in a shaker with ice and shake.
  3. Strain into the rinsed glass.

Garnish Orange wedge

  • Ricard is needed for the rinse but is not a measured ingredient, and no rinse amount is given. Add it to your checklist separately.
  • Use freshly squeezed orange juice.
  • The simple syrup is 1:1.

Recipe source: cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com ↗