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Red Lion (Tarling's recipe)

Name: Red Lion (Tarling's recipe)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Grand Marnier; 15 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Orange juice

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (23)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange juice and sugar coated rim.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Red Lion (Tarling's recipe) contains 150 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.9% alc./vol. (39.8° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created by Arthur Tarling, head bartender at London's Café Royal, this recipe was first published in 1937 by his younger brother, Billy Tarling, in his Café Royal Cocktail Book.
Red Lion cocktail history

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Review

This gin and cognac orange-based citrusy cocktail is deliberately, and indeed originally, formulated to be a tad on the sour side, but is balanced by a luxuriant sugar-crusted rim.

Variations/similar cocktails

Red Lion (Difford's recipe).

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
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Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge 375ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
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Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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David Teager 2y

My goodness. I liked this drink before, but wondered why it wasn’t red. Tonight I muddled for raspberries with the mixture and it elevates it to something really special.