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Twin Six

Name: Twin Six
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Orange juice; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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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	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Twin Six contains 172 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
15.5% alc./vol. (30.99° proof)
17.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

History

Adapted from a recipe in Hugo R. Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for Mixed Drinks (2nd Edition) (It may have also appeared in his 1916 first edition.)

TWIN SIX COCKTAIL.
1 jigger El Bart Gin
½ jigger Italian Vermouth
1 dash Grenadine
3 slices Orange
White of 1 Egg
Shake well in a mixing glass with cracked ice, strain and serve in a wine glass.
Hugo R. Ensslin, Recipes for Mixed Drinks, 1916/17

More cocktails by Hugo R. Esslinn

Review

A Million Dollar Cocktail, but with zesty orange juice in place of pineapple juice. The result is fresher and more cleansing, fitting the aperitivo moment as much as a late-night tipple.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
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Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
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STUART WHITEHOUSE 11w

Gotta love a 'late night nipple' now and again!

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 11w

A nipple for a tipple
A breast for a feast
And kiss her dimple
As she falls asleep.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 11w

In his review, perhaps our good and generous host succumbed to a Freudian slip, and may wish to now cover his tracks. 🙂

Paloma Difford Continue thread (1 reply)

Chris Brislawn 10w

Maybe that was the variation in Ensslin's 1916 edition. Whatever its pedigree, it's on my Wish List now.

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