Name: Doctor No. 2
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 37.5 ml Swedish Punsch; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Doctor No. 2
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Swedish Punsch liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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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.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Funky notes from Swedish punch vie with piney gin, freshened by zesty lemon.

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Variant:

In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David A. Embury says, "There are numerous recipes for this drink. Here are several. Shake well with cracked ice.
Doctor No. 1 Equal parts of lime juice and Swedish Punch.
Doctor No. 2 Equal parts of lemon juice, Swedish Punch, and gin. This is also known as the Greta Garbo.
Doctor No. 3 One part lemon juice, 1 part orange juice, 2 parts Swedish Punch.
Doctor No. 4 One part lime juice, 2 parts Jamaican rum, 3 parts Swedish Punch."

History:

David A. Embury's 1948 Fine Art of Mixing Drinks lists a cocktail called a Doctor No.2 (consisting of equal parts lemon juice, Swedish Punch and gin) and states, "This is also known as a Gretta Garbo." Not anymore, it's not! A Gretta Garbo is a very different, rum-based cocktail.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Doctor No. 2 contains 156 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
18.05% alc./vol. (18.05° proof)
16.3 grams of pure alcohol

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