Queen Elizabeth

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Ingredients:
1 3/4 fl oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1/2 fl oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1/4 fl oz Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:


Recipe contains the following allergens:

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Review:

A vintage cocktail that's befitting to toast the longest reigning, most respected, and the greatest ever monarch of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. HM Queen Elizabeth II, we thank you for your service.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

QUEEN ELIZABETH
Cocktail Glass
Stir
1-3/4 oz gin
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1/4 oz Benedictine

Variation

1-3/4 oz gin
1/4 oz Cointreau
1/4 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz Pernod

Variation

1-1/4 oz brandy
1 oz sweet vermouth
1/4 oz orange curacao
Cherry optional

Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Queen Elizabeth contains 155 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.5 standard drinks
  • 28.69% alc./vol. (57.38° proof)
  • 21.5 grams of pure alcohol
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New Year's Day

If Auld Lang Syne left your throat dry? And dancing left your feet sore? And drinking left your head fuzzy? Then resist the temptation to curl up in bed

Hot Toddy Day image

Hot Toddy Day

In the days before ice was easily available - and in most parts of the world, you needed to be pretty much royalty to own an ice house and keep it stocked

The day Prohibition started image

The day Prohibition started

One minute after midnight on this day in 1920, the Volstead Act became law and Prohibition descended on the United States, making it illegal to possess,

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