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Gillette – Chicago Style

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 'rich' (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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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)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

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

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Express lime 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 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

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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Review

This dry, spirit-forward Gin Sour is considered a predecessor to the modern Gimlet.

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Cliff Marx Premium Member 9w

Quite dry, quite drinkable