Name: Merry Widow Fizz
Prep time: 1 min
Total time: 1 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 30 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed); 1 Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle) (or use 5ml of 2:1 sugar syrup per spoon); 1/2 Pasteurised egg white (or aquafaba); 90 ml Soda (club soda)

Serve in a

Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

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.

1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 fl 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	Pasteurised egg white (or aquafaba)
3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water
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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.

History:

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

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
4.84% alc./vol. (9.68° proof)
9.4 grams of pure alcohol

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