Garnish:
Lemon slice
How to make:
Lightly MUDDLE mint in base of shaker (just to bruise). Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into glass filled with crushed ice. Serve with straws.
10 fresh | Mint leaves |
2 fl oz | Rutte Dry Gin |
1/2 fl oz | Apricot (brandy) liqueur |
1 fl oz | Lemon juice (freshly squeezed) |
1/2 fl oz | Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°brix) |
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Review:
Hints of lemon and mint with gin and apricot fruit. Very refreshing.
History:
An adaptation of a drink created in the early 1930s and named after Washington Irving's novel and its enchanted valley with ghosts, goblins and headless horseman.
Alcohol content:
- 1.8 standard drinks
- 21.37% alc./vol. (42.74° proof)
- 25.6 grams of pure alcohol
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