Name: Easy Street
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 slice Cucumber (fresh); 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 50 ml Soda (club soda) water

Easy Street
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Ingredients:
3 slice	Cucumber (fresh)
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of cucumber slice speared with mint sprigs bouquet.
MUDDLE cucumber in base of shaker.
Add next 4 ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring soda.
Garnish with cucumber slice speared with mint sprigs bouquet.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Gin-laced Cucumber and elderflower with a splash of freshening lemon juice and enlivened with soda. Perfect for a summer afternoon.

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Variant:

White Linen
Gin Garden

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2010 by Anthony Schmidt at Noble Experiment in San Diego, California.

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Rolo Diaz

1st January at 01:20

This drink is very dangerous, it's almost like the blend cancel each other and it goes down like there no alcohol in it, smooth and refreshing, definitely a good drink for anyone that likes a cucumber forward drink.

Asher Günther

3rd November 2022 at 08:48

Quite satisfying. Don't be afraid to overshoot the cucumber

Fernando Yu

4th June 2022 at 13:50

Very light and refreshing! Some mint added would be great!

Bob Cook

21st July 2021 at 00:32

I was looking for a drink that uses gin, cucumber and elderflower liqueur and came across this one. I used blue peaberry-infused gin, because it was for my wife, and she doesn't really like regular gin. The result was very enjoyable. I was trying to match elderflower liqueur with the blue peaberry-infused gin, because I've seen some stuff promoting elderflower tonic with blue gin. And we had a fresh cucumber. The Easy Street is a good way to use the blue gin. A salad in a glass.

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