Name: Igloo
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 10 ml Crème de violette; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1.25 ml Green crème de menthe; 1.25 ml Absinthe; 5 ml Chilled water

Igloo
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₃ oz	Rothman & Winter Crème de Violette Liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
0.04 oz	Giffard Peppermint Pastille crème de menthe
0.04 oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
¹⁄₆ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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History:

Adapted from a recipe by Jason E. Clapham of the St. Edward's MCR at Oxford, England who says this cocktail is so-named due to being based on a drink containing cream called Snowball which appears in W. C. Whitfield's 1939 Just Cocktails.

SNOWBALL
1/3 Gin
1/6 Creme de violette
1/6 White creme de menthe
1/6 Anisette
1/6 Fresh cream
W. C. Whitfield, 1939

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Nutrition:

One serving of Igloo contains 184 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
21% alc./vol. (21° proof)
20.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Michael Cronin

2nd March 2023 at 20:55

This is a very delicately balanced cocktail. I agree that the correct measurement is the key to this. I definitely taste the Creme de Violette. I pick up the Absinthe by smell, but not really by taste. The lemon gives it a tartness and the sugar syrup and chilled water take off the sharp edges.

John Hinojos

18th August 2022 at 00:25

Excellent cocktail for a warm August afternoon. You can taste all the ingredients and the colour of the cocktail is stunning. Burst of floral with the mint and Violette paired with the herbal from the gin and absenthe. Onto my favourites. Very refreshing in a very sophicated way.

Jack Reid

28th February 2022 at 07:18

This tasted very "grown up" to me. I don't have much of a sense of smell, and I can't say I have a refined palate, but even I could taste immediately that there was a lot going on here. I got the gin, I got the lemon, I got the mint and the absinthe. I think I got a hint of the violet. It was very well balanced. It's not gong to become a favourite of mine but it was a very interesting drink.

Sally Morgan

26th February 2022 at 20:26

The homeopathics quantities of the extra ingredients really work here - well worth investing in one of Mr Difford’s measures to make sure you’re precise. Adds complexity without hitting you in the face