Fancy Gin Cocktail

1862

Source: The Bartender's Guide: How To Mix Drinks page: 51

3 to 4 dash gum syrup

Ingredient: gum syrup

Also Known As: Gomme syrup What it is: Syrup

An ingredient commonly used in mixed drinks. Like bar syrups, it is a sugar and water mixture, but has an added ingredient of gum arabic which acts as an emulsifier.

Substitution: simple syrup

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2 dash Bogart's bitters

Ingredient: Bogart's bitters

Also Known As: Boker's What it is: Bitters

Corruption of the correct name, "Boker's", a popular bitters in the late 19th century.

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1 wine-glass gin (Jenever)

Ingredient: gin (Jenever)

Also Known As: Holland gin, , Dutch gin, Genever What it is: Gin

Also called Holland Gin or Genever, it is a juniper-flavored and strongly alcoholic traditional liquor of the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France, from which gin evolved.

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1 to 2 dash Curaçao

Ingredient: Curaçao

Also Known As: Curaçoa What it is: Bitters

Liqueur flavored with the dried peels of the laraha citrus fruit, grown on the island of Curaçao. Earlier versions were based on brandy or rum but now use neutral spirits.

Substitution: Triple sec

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1 piece lemon

Ingredient: lemon

What it is: Fruit

Common name for Citrus limon.

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peel

(Use small bar glass.)

This drink as made the same as the gin cocktail, except that it is strained in a fancy wine-glass and a piece of lemon peel thrown on top, and the edge of the glass moistened with lemon.

Variant of: Gin Cocktail