Name: Gillette – Chicago Style
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 70 ml Old Tom gin; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Gillette – Chicago Style
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ 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 optional

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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History:

Adapted from a recipe first published in Tom Bullock's 1917 book The Ideal Bartender.

GILLETTE COCKTAIL – Chicago Style
Use a large Mixing glass; fill with Lump Ice.
Juice ½ Lime.
1½ jiggers Burnette's Old Ton Gin.
½ teaspoon Bar Sugar.
Stir well and strain into Cocktail glass.
Tom Bullock, The Ideal Bartender, 1917

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Nutrition:

One serving of Gillette – Chicago Style contains 173 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
24.65% alc./vol. (49.31° proof)
22.9 grams of pure alcohol

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