Name: Lemony
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Old Tom gin; 15 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Limoncello liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Lemony
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Photographed in an Urban Bar Plain Retro Coupette 15cl

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ oz	Pallini Limoncello liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with skewered cherry.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

With London dry gin, as originally, this is a good cocktail, but it's better with the extra character and richness of an old tom gin. As the name implies, lemon leads with pleasing botanical and herbal notes from the gin and monastic liqueur.

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AKA: The Lemony Snicket

History:

Adapted from a cocktail called "The Lemony Snicket Cocktail" created in 2003 by Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh, who named his creation after Mr. Lemony Snicket, author of the popular children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events, after Ted was commissioned as graphic designer for the Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events movie. Ted's original boozier recipe calls for:
75ml (2½oz) Gin
15ml (½oz) Lemon juice
15ml (½oz) Limoncello liqueur
15ml (½oz) Yellow Chartreuse

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Nutrition:

One serving of Lemony contains 155 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
23.66% alc./vol. (23.66° proof)
21.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Laurie Cavanaugh

9th July at 02:42

I liked this drink as written, although I didn’t have the exact brands of gin and limoncello called for. In Mr. Boston book, a similar drink is listed as “The Lemony Snicket Cocktail” and calls for 2-1:2 gin and a 1/2 oz each of limoncello, yellow Chartreuse, and fresh lemon juice.

Simon Difford

9th July at 14:12

Thanks, I'll be sure to try, but it's not in the Mr. Boston editions I have, the latest being 1978. What edition and publication date is your Mr Boston?