Name: Juliet and Romeo
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 slice Cucumber (fresh); 1 pinch Salt; 8 fresh Mint leaves; 60 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

3 slice

Cucumber (fresh)

1 pinch

Salt (sea salt)

8 fresh

Mint leaves

2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

2 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or pinch of salt

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of rose water, aromatic bitters and mint leaf.

Method

MUDDLE cucumber with salt in base of shaker.

Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Float 3 drops rose water and 3 drops of aromatic bitters, and peg mint leaf to rim.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

19.5 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Dominic Dear Premium Member 9w

Hey. I was about to make this…how much of these does one use? rose water, aromatic bitters

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 9w

As per garnish: "Float 3 drops rose water and 3 drops of aromatic bitters, and peg mint leaf to rim."

Vera Lycaon 17w

Didn't get much of the rose water directly despite accidentally adding more than needed (more of a dash than three drops), though I'm sure I'd miss it if it wasn't there - cucumber and mint meanwhile are both delightfully present without claiming the entire palate to themselves. Very refreshing; definitely making again.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 19w

A beautifully delicate and balanced cocktail. If one wants it full flavoured, we suggest doing the muddle, adding the remaining ingredients and just letting it sit in the shaker, without ice, for five to ten minutes (depending on your level of patience), and then adding the ice and shaking. Delicious.

Larry Havard Premium Member 19w

Delicious. Reminds me of hot summer days doing the gardening. The cucumber and mint really shine through (especially with heavy handed muddling). Another favorite!

Jacques Gaudin Premium Member 20w

This is an excellent summer drink. I sprayed the rose water on the glass rather than using drops so the rose smell is more obvious.

Florian Ruf Premium Member 20w

I omitted the rose water and the bitters and got a really refreshing summer drink. Obvious then similar to "Maid in Cuba ", but IMHO even better.

Howard Griffin 1y

I must be missing something in the specification of this cocktail. The ingredients list calls for 8 mint leaves while the instructions call for a garnish involving a single mint leaf. Are the other 7 mint leaves part of the "other ingredients" specified in step 4? Also, step 2 says to prepare a garnish of "3 rose water, aromatic bitters and mint leaf." What does "3 rose water" mean? Three drops? Are the 3 ingredients specified in step 2 the same 3 ingredients referenced in step 6? Sorry for being obtuse.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

As with all our recipes, the items specified for the garnish (mint leaf, rose water and bitters) are in addition to the items listed as ingredients.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

With the amount of ingredients you'd expect it to be a lot more flavorful than it actually is. From what I understand the cocktail was made for those who don't like gin and I can see why. It's mostly refreshing cucumber, some gin, some mint and salinity on the back end. I don't get much of the rose water at all.

Luca Brillante 2y

Why is the salt twice in the recipe (once as a pinch, another as solution)?

Angela Knox 3y

It's a good enough drink but it lacks a certain something. I was tempted to add a dash of green chartreuse as it reminded me of a Last Word sans the maraschino