Name: Green Fizz
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Green crème de menthe; 30 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 60 ml Soda (club soda) water

Green Fizz
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Glass:

Serve in a Fizz or Highball (8oz to 10oz)

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Giffard Peppermint Pastille crème de menthe
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water chilled

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a FIZZ OR HIGHBALL (8OZ TO 10OZ) GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel and mint leaf.

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass (no ice in glass).
TOP with soda.

Garnish:

Garnish with mint leaf and lemon slice on rim.

Review:

Fresh, cleansing and refreshing - as only a minty Fizz can be.

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Variant:

Gin Fizz
Silver Fizz

History:

O/ A mid-19th-century classic first published in R. de Fleury's 1934 book 1700 Cocktails For The Man Behind The Bar with a recipe missing the soda water.

GREEN FIZZ
1/2 Coates' Plymouth Gin
1/6 Creme de Menthe
1/3 Lemon Juice
1 Dash Syrup
R. de Fleury, 1700 Cocktails For The Man Behind The Bar, 1934

Nutrition:

One serving of Green Fizz contains 200 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
11.88% alc./vol. (23.76° proof)
20.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Dietmar

1st November at 16:47

Green crème de menthe should be correct.

Simon Difford

2nd November at 08:20

Thanks for bringing to my attention. Now corrected.

Tom W

22nd March 2021 at 23:44

The proportion of creme de menthe in this cocktail is spot on for my taste - pleasantly minty without becoming overly toothpaste-flavoured. Also, the sourness of the lemons is balanced by the sugar syrup.

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