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Old Tom Gin Cocktail

Name: Old Tom Gin Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Old Tom gin; 2.5 ml Gomme syrup; 1.25 ml Orange Curaçao; 2 dash Boker's style bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
1/12 fl oz	Gomme syrup
1/24 fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
2 dash	Difford's Bokers Bitters By Bob's Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Old Tom Gin Cocktail contains 136 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
31.27% alc./vol. (62.53° proof)
20.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Jerry Thomas' 1887 Bar-Tender's Guide.

Gin Cocktail.
(Use small bar glass.)
Take 3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup.
2 dashes of bitters (Boker's).
1 wine-glass of Holland gin.
1 or 2 dashes of Curaçao.
Fill the glass one-third full of shaved ice, and strain into a cocktail glass. Twist a small piece of lemon peel, place it in the glass, and serve.

Old Tom Gin Cocktail.
Same as the foregoing, substituting Old Tom, instead of Holland Gin.
Jerry Thomas, Bar-Tender's Guide, 1887

Review

A delightfully rustic and characterful pre-Martini, Martini.

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John CARR Premium Member 1y

As an old fashioned romantic I enjoyed this very much. Things have come a long way, but have they really? Full of character and flavour. I had to make a half-serve, but it disappeared so quickly…!