Gin Punch #1

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and stain into ice-filled glass.

Garnish:

Lemon slice

Comment:

Light and refreshing, akin to alcoholic real lemonade.

About:

This is a version of the drink for which Limmer's Hotel in London was most famed: a Captain Gronow recalled it in his 1860s memoirs as one of the top, if filthy and seedy, sporting hangouts of 1814, thanks in part to its 'famous gin-punch'. A bartender named John Collins worked there later in the 19th century, and was famous enough to inspire a limerick, so many believe he created the Collins, which is similar to gin punch, although the drink is not named in the rhyme which goes as follows:



My name is John Collins,

head waiter at Limmer's,

Corner of Conduit Street,

Hanover Square,

My chief occupation is filling brimmers

For all the young gentlemen frequenters there.