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London Cocktail

Name: London Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 7.5 ml Chilled water; 3 dash Absinthe; 3 dash Orange bitters

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)
3 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
3 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 London Cocktail contains 145 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
28.07% alc./vol. (56.14° proof)
20.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in the 1922 book Cocktails: How to Mix Them by Robert Vermeire who worked at London's Embassy Club. The title page confirms this, saying "By Robert of the Embassy Club" and the book was published in London by Hebert Jenkins Limited.

London Cocktail.
Fill a bar glass half full of broken ice and add:
2 dashes of Orange Bitters.
2 dashes of Gum Syrup.
2 dashes of Absinthe.
½ gill of London Dry Gin.
Stir up, strain into a cocktail-glass, add an olive, and squeeze lemon-peel on top.
Robert Vermeire, Cocktails - How to Mix Them, 1922

LONDON COCKTAIL.
2 Dashes Orange Bitters.
2 Dashes Syrup.
2 Dashes Absinthe.
1/3 Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

More cocktails by Harry Craddock

Review

Chilled, diluted and very subtly sweetened gin invigorated by a hint of absinthe and zesty orange.

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 301 cocktails
$14.99 $0.05 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 213 cocktails
$17.99 $0.08 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 128 cocktails
$13.99 $0.11 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

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Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Angel Aguilera Premium Member 2y

Curious why the recipe calls for shaking over stirring?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

That recipe, as per the original, is better with the extra dilution that comes with shaking. I've now adapted the recipe to be stirred.

Robert Naylor 2y

For such a simple cocktail it's wonderfully flavoursome.

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

What a great cocktail. Simple and flavourful. Love the hint of absinthe.

Richard Elgar Premium Member 4y

Surprisingly tasty for such a relatively simple drink. I struggle to see how the addition of absinthe to the gin led to it being called the London Cocktail though!

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