Name: Merry Widow Fizz
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Lemon juice; 30 ml Orange juice; 1 barspoon Powdered sugar; 1&frasl;2 fresh Egg white; 90 ml Soda (club soda) water

Merry Widow Fizz
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Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 barspoon	Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle) or use 5ml of 2:1 sugar syrup per spoon
¹⁄₂ fresh	Egg white
3 oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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Garnish: Lemon & orange slices

How to make:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and strain into chilled glass (no ice). TOP with soda.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Rich berry balanced by citrus and charged with soda to fizz. The egg white ensures a lasting thick foaming head.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stan Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Bar Guide.

MERRY WIDOW FIZZ
Tall Glass
Shake
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz orange juice
1 tsp sugar
1 egg white
1-1/2 oz sloe gin
Fill with soda, ice
Stan Jones, Jones' Complete Bar Guide, 1977

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Caitlin

22nd August 2023 at 12:49

It's tasty but I didn't get the hit of sloe gin I was anticipating. It might need more sloe gin, or less lemon (it was pretty lemony). Maybe also some plum bitters?

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