Name: Breakfast Gimlet
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Lime cordial; 2 barspoon Orange marmalade; 7.5 ml Lemon juice

Breakfast Gimlet
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)
2 barspoon	Orange marmalade
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

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Garnish: Basil leaf

How to make:

STIR marmalade with gin in base of shaker to dissolve marmalade. Add lemon juice and lime cordial, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Review:

Orange marmalade justifies the 'breakfast' prefix and adds complexity to this gimlet.

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Variant:

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History:

A mashup of the classic Gimlet and Salvatore Calabrese's Breakfast Martini. Created by yours truly at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

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Chris Dimal

10th July 2023 at 07:41

Hmm. A bit disappointing. It just tasted like a Breakfast-tini, with barely any lime cordial coming through. Quite middle of the road.

Angela Knox

28th March 2023 at 23:49

I am surprised at the quantity of gin - it makes for a very potent cocktail. One to choose if you like a citrusy drink.
The calorie guide cannot be correct however as 3 x 25ml gin equals 186 calories alone - add on to that 2 tsps of marmalade (32 assuming you use a level tsp, which you probably won’t!) and the lime cordial and you’re already around 230 cals at least

Simon Difford

3rd April 2023 at 13:49

I make it roughly 200kcal plus the marmalade. The "spoon" measure is causing the issue as not a precise volume for our cleaver site to use in the calculation. Hence, so as not misleading, I've asked for kcal to be removed.

James Burnett

22nd July 2021 at 22:30

Great with fresh lime juice too

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