Name: Ocean Shore
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Orgeat syrup; 6 drop Vanilla bitters; 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised)

Ocean Shore
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup
6 drop	Bob's Vanilla bitters optional
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba or Vegan egg white alternative

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup (2:1) - Nuts
Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A sloe gin sour with a touch of almond. If you opt not to follow my addition of vanilla bitters, then consider dropping the orgeat to 5ml (1 bar spoon).

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History:

The Ocean Shore cocktail first appears in the "Some new up-to-now seductive American cocktails" annexe of William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's 1908 book The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them with a choice of "one-third raspberry or Orgeat syrup".

OCEAN SHORE COCKTAIL.
One-half Sloe gin, one-third Coates Plymouth gin, one-third raspberry or Orgeat syrup, juice of lime or lemon to overcome the sweetness of the syrup, and the white of half an egg. Shake well with cracked ice, and serve in small claret glass.
William Boothby, The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, 1908

By the time the cocktail makes it into the main section of Boothby's 1934 edition , only orgeat syrup appears and this repeated in Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco's 1937 The How and When.

OCEAN SHORE
Sloe Gin...... ½ jigger
Orgeat......... 1 spoon
Gin.............. ⅓ jigger
Lemon......... 5 drops
Egg.............. ½ of white
Shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass and serve.
William Boothby, The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them, 1934

Ocean Shore Cocktail
1 pony Sloe Gin
⅓ jigger Dry Gin
1 spoon Orgeat
5 drops Lemon Juice
½ White of 1 Egg
Shake well
Strain into Cocktail glass
Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco, The How and When, 1937

Nutrition:

One serving of Ocean Shore contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
15.22% alc./vol. (15.22° proof)
14.9 grams of pure alcohol

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James Pratt

11th May at 09:09

This appears earlier than the 1934 edition. The 1908 ‘Latest Edition’ version (there are two 1908 editions on EUVS) has a section after the end of the previous edition named ‘Some new-up-to-now seductive American cocktails’; the Ocean Shore Cocktail appears there. That recipe has raspberry syrup as an alternative sweetener to orgeat.