Name: Chelsea Sidecar
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 20 ml Triple sec; 20 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

²⁄₃ fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

²⁄₃ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

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

2 drop

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

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Chelsea Sidecar contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
21.68% alc./vol. (43.35° proof)
20.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Christina Christova Premium Member 12w

A bit too sweet. I added a little bit more lemon juice. Next time will skip the sugar syrup.

Kjell Eriksson Premium Member 26w

I think this cocktail should be named Lady, since it is more or less a White Lady without the (egg) White. While writing this I'm finishing off my first Daleoni Negroni. Great stuff, highly recommended!

Noel Sharkey 3y

This runs close to Craddock original White Lady although that is a 2:1;1 (no egg white). Some authors suggest it is an alternative name for the early White Lady.

Noel Sharkey 3y

Doh! I note that your White Lady has a reference link to the Chelsea Sidecar

Anna Mallyon 4y

Also good with an added 1/3 shot of yellow chartreuse.

Steve Anderson 6y

Much better with gin than rum (my mistake yesterday.) Still, can it really be called a Sidecar without Cognac? It's hard to beat the original.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

I just tried with an 8-year-old rum, thinking that closest to cognac and it doesn't work. Agreed, better with gin. Chelsea Sidecar name references gin's London association and, apart from base spirit, recipe following that for a Sidecar.

Steve Anderson 6y

I grabbed the white rum instead of gin by mistake! Interesting taste. I guess that would make a Cuban Sidecar?? I'll try again tomorrow to make a Chelsea Sidecar and compare.