Name: Barbara West
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Gin; 37.5 ml Sherry - Amontillado; 15 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters; 2 Saline solution

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

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

1 1/4 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 1/4 fl oz	Amontillado sherry
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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AKA:

Creole Cocktail

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Review:

Your choice of amontillado sherry may dramatically affect the balance of this gin and sherry sour. Choose well and you're in for a treat.

Variant:

Creole Cocktail (without bitters)
London Calling

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide. This classic could date from the 1930s.

BARBARA WEST
Cocktail Glass
Stir
1 oz gin
1 oz sherry
½ oz lemon juice
1 dash Angostura bitters
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
17.05% alc./vol. (34.1° proof)
17.1 grams of pure alcohol

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