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Gin Twist

Name: Gin Twist
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); Top up with Boiling water

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
Top up with	Boiling water

Garnish: Lemon zest twist

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Toddy glass

Method:

POUR ingredients into pre-warmed glass and STIR.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Gin Twist contains 151 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
17.7% alc./vol. (35.39° proof)
14.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

This classic English cocktail dates back to at least the early 1800s and was so popular at the time that it is frequently referred to in novels and periodicals from the time. In Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel St Ronan's Well, the character Captain MacTurk says, "Sir Binco, I will beg the favour of your company to the smoking-room, where we may have a cigar and a glass of gin-twist; and we will consider how the honour of the company must be supported and upholden upon the present conjuncture."

William Makepeace Thackeray mentions the Gin Twist in his 1869 Miscellanies: The Book of Snobs. Sketches and Travels in London. "About eleven men in white neckcloths drop in from dinner-parties, and show their lacquered boots and shirt-studs with a little complacency - and at midnight, after the theatres, the young rakes and viveurs come swaggering in, and call loudly for Gin-Twist."