Veritas

Name: Veritas
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1; 2.5 ml Crème de cassis

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ fl oz	Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lime 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 (optional)
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Crème de cassis liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

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

Method

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
DRIZZLE crème de cassis into the centre of cocktail (it will sink).

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge on rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Veritas contains 160 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
20.38% alc./vol. (40.75° proof)
19.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from Trader Vic's 1947 Bartender's Guide.

VERITAS COCKTAIL
¾ oz. dry gin
¾ oz. cointreau
¾ oz. lime juice
Shake with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass. Add float of 2 tbs. crème de cassis.
Trader Vic, Bartender's Guide, 1947

More cocktails by Victor Bergeron A.K.A Trader Vic

Review

A gin margarita with a sunken blackcurrant treat.

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