Name: Gimlet Cocktail (Charles H. Baker's 1939 recipe)
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin (classic dry); 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 6 ml Lime cordial; 22.5 ml Water (cold)

Gimlet Cocktail (Charles H. Baker's 1939 recipe) image

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

oz ml cl shot part	Rutte Dry Gin
oz ml cl shot part	Giffard Sugar Cane Syrup
oz ml cl shot part	Rose's lime cordial
oz ml cl shot part	Chilled water

Comment:

Boozy and very subtly flavoured and edging very slightly towards being sweet.

About:

Adapted from recipe first published by Charles H. Baker Jr. in his 1946 'Gentleman's Companion'.

See our Gimlet cocktail page for more information on the history and variants of this drink.

Makes a minimum of 11.5 cocktails.

Rutte Dry Gin

£33.95

£2.90/cocktail, makes 11.5

Sugar syrup (2:1)

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* This list may not include all required ingredients. Price per cocktail is an estimate based on the cost of making one cocktail with the available ingredients shown above and does not include any postage charges.

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Gimlet Cocktail (Charles H. Baker's 1939 recipe)

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