Name: Starboard Light
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Crème de menthe green; 22.5 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Mint sprigs bouquet pegged to rim

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Gin
3/4 fl oz	Giffard Peppermint Pastille crème de menthe
3/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
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Review:

Looks the part but is one-dimensional with gin-laced cleansing mint and citrus. Perhaps better with the addition of 2.5ml (½ barspoon) sugar and 3 dashes absinthe.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Bar Book.

STARBOARD LIGHT
1/2 Dry Gin.
1/4 Lemon Juice.
1/4 Crème de Menthe.
Shake and strain.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Starboard Light contains 160 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
19.67% alc./vol. (39.34° proof)
17.7 grams of pure alcohol

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