Gin Fizz

Gin Swizzle

Gin Swizzle 

2 oz Gin

1/4 oz sugar syrup 

Juice of lime

2 dashes Angostura bitters

Shake & strain into collins. Stir vigorously to create swirl effect. 19th century. 

Gin Sling 

Gin Sling:

2 oz Gin

Juice of half a lemon

1/4 oz of sugar syrup 

Dash of Angostura bitters

Add chilled water 

Shake & strain into collins glass. Mid 18th century recipe.

Gin Cocktail

Gin Cocktail 

2 oz Gin 

5 dashes of orange bitters

Shake & strain into martini glass

Gin Sour 

Gin Sour

2 oz Gin 

Juice of half a large lemon

1/4oz sugar 

splash soda (optional)

Orange Blossom

Orange Blossom

1 1/2 oz Gin

1 1/2 oz Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice

Sweet Vermouth

Twist of lemon (Not in glass)

Olive Garnish (optional)

Shake & strain into martini glass. Prohibition Era recipe.

Clover Club 

Clover Club

2 oz Gin 

Juice of a large lemon

1 oz Grenadine 

1 Egg White

Garnish lemon 

Shake & strain into rocks glass. Shake for 30 seconds to dissolve egg white. 1920s

Horse's Neck

Horse's Neck

1 Lemon 

2 oz Gin 

Dry Ginger ale 

Angostura Bitters (optional)

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady 

1 oz Gin 

1/2 oz Orange Juice

1/2 oz Lemon Juice

1/4 oz créme de fraise 

1 egg white 

Shake & strain into martini glass. 1950's invented for Lerner and Loewe musical based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.

Gin and Lemon Fizz

Gin and Lemon Fizz

Mix small edible berries or currants 

Pieces of thinly pared lemon or orange rind 

Edible Flowers 

4 scoops of lemon sorbet 

2 oz Gin 

4 oz chilled tonic water

Freeze berries into ice cubes. Divide sorbet into two martini glasses.

White Lady 

White Lady

1 oz Gin 

1 oz Cointreau 

1 oz Lemon Juice

1/4 oz Egg White (optional) 

Garnish with special lime twist

Tod's Cooler/Yankee Doodle Dandy

Tod's Cooler

2 oz Gin

2/3 oz Créme de cassis 

2/3 oz Lemon Juice

Soda water

Collins glass. Named after American Jockey Tod Sloan WWI. Created at the Palace Hotel in Brussels. Garnish with lemon rind. 

Gin Smash 

Gin Smash 

1/4 oz Sugar 

4 sprigs mint peppermint or spearmint 

2 oz Gin

Dissolve sugar in a little water. Add mint and, using a muddler, bruise and press the juices out of the leaves. Add ice and gin. Shake for about 20 seconds strain into small wine glass. add fresh mints sprigs and drinking straw.

Leap Year

Leap Year

2 oz Gin

1/2 oz Grand Marnier

1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth 

dash of lemon juice, plus lemon rind 

Shake & strain into martini glass. Created in 1928 by Harry Craddock a barman at the Savory Hotel in London on February 29. 

Gin Rickey 

Gin Rickey 

Juice and rind of half a lime

2 oz Gin 

Soda water

Fill collins glass half way. Squeeze lime directly into glass and drop empty rind. Add gin and stir vigorously. Invented in the last decade of the 19th century in the United States. 

Gin Crusta 

Gin Crusta 

1 Lemon

2 oz Brown Sugar

3 dashes sugar syrup 

2 dashes maraschino cherry juice 

2 dashes angostura bitters

1 oz Gin

Cut both ends off the lemon. Peel thinly for garnish. Rub half lemon on chilled glass. Shake all ingredients and quarter of lemon strain into glass. 

Monkey Gland

Monkey Gland 

2 oz Gin 

1 oz orange juice 

1/2 oz grenadine 

1/2 absinthe 

Shake and strain into a large wine glass. Garnish Orange. Created by Harry McElhone in the 1920's at the Ciro's club in London.

Amsterdam 

Amsterdam

1 1/2 oz Gin

1/2 oz Cointreau 

3/4 oz mandarin juice 

1-2 mandarin segments

Squeeze fresh mandarin and add ingredients. Strain into rocks glass.

Lady Killer

Lady Killer

1 oz Gin 

3/4 oz apricot brandy 

3/4 oz Cointreau 

2 oz fruit juice

2 oz pineapple juice

Shake and strain into a highball glass half filled with ice. Garnish with pineapple. Created at the Wantagh Arms in New York State. 

Pink Pussycat

Pink Pussycat 

2 oz Gin 

3 oz pineapple juice

2 oz grapefruit juice

1/2 oz Grenadine 

Shake strain into a collins glass. Garnish with a segment of grapefruit. 

Wilga Hill Boomerang 

Wilga Hill Boomerang

1 oz Gin 

1/4 dry vermouth 

1/4 sweet vermouth 

1 oz apple juice 

dash Angostura bitters 

2 dashes of maraschino cherry juice

Pour gin, perfect vermouth, and apple juice into a pitcher filled with cracked ice. Add Angostura bitters and cherry juice at bottom of cocktail glass.

Vunderful

Vunderful

14 oz can lychees 

2 peaches sliced 

3/4 bottle gin 

1 oz Pimm's 

2-3 dashes of Angostura bitters 

5 oz tonic water or lemonade 

Put peaches, lychees, and gin in a jar for night or month. Fill pitcher with measure of gin. Muddle them into collins. Slice of lime garnish.

Luigi

Luigi

1 1/2 oz gin

1 1/2 oz dry vermouth 

1/4 grenadine 

dash of Cointreau 

juice of half a tangerine

Shake & strain into glass. 1920's classic created at the Criterion restaurant in London's Piccadilly Circus by Luigi Naintré.

Mistress 

Mistress 

1 1/2 oz Gin 

1 oz White Cremé de Cacao

2 oz Pineapple Juice

1 oz passion fruit juice 

1 oz whipping cream 

1/4 oz Campari 

Shake all ingredients except Campari. Strain and drizzle Campari in high ball glass

Pink Lady 

Pink Lady

1 1/2 oz Plymouth gin

1/2 oz grenadine 

1/2 oz heavy cream

1/4 oz lemon juice 

1 oz egg white

Dip rim of martini glass into grenadine and caster sugar. Garnish cherry. WWI

Blue Star

Blue Star

1 oz Gin

3/4 Oz Noilly Prat or other Dry Vermouth 

1/3 oz blue curacao

1 oz orange juice

Shake & strain into cocktail glass 

Jockey Club

Jockey Club 

2 oz Gin 

1/3 oz creme de noyau/Amaretto 

dash orange bitters (or orange curacao) 

dash Angostura bitters

1/3 oz lemon juice

Shake & strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with half slice of lemon. 1920s Havana

RAC

RAC

1 1/2 oz Gin

3/4 oz Dry Vermouth 

3/4 oz Sweet vermouth 

1/4 oz orange bitters

Shake & strain into martini glass. Squeeze twist of orange rind over the top. Created on the eve of WWI at the Automobile Club in London's Pall Mall.

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood

1 oz Gin 

3/4 oz créme de múre 

3/4 oz créme de fraise

1 1/2 oz orange juice 

Shake & strain into large cocktail glass filled with ice. Garnish with strawberry, a blackberry, and a cherry.