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Livingstone

Name: Livingstone
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 30 ml Dry vermouth; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Verdot Martini 21cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Livingstone contains 184 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
24.97% alc./vol. (49.94° proof)
23.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

This vintage cocktail is named after Doctor Livingstone, the famous African missionary.

Review

The classic gin and vermouth Dry Martini made not so dry and a tad more approachable by a splash of sugar.

Variations/similar cocktails

Use pomegranate/grenadine syrup in place of sugar and you have a Red Livingstone, named after London's 'lefty' ex-mayor, Ken.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.72 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$14.99 $0.10 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

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Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Calvin Grant Premium Member 4y

Just tried the variant Red Livingstone. Delitefully fresh and light. Pleasantly boozy as it warmed. Now that Moody Blues song is playing in my head.