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Straits Sling

Name: Straits Sling
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 15 ml Kirschwasser; 30 ml Lemon juice; 2 dash Orange bitters; Top up with Soda water

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
Top up with	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Sling glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a SLING GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange slice wheel and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).

Method

SHAKE first 6 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring soda.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered orange slice and maraschino cherry (sail).

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Straits Sling contains 213 calories

Alcohol content:

2.1 standard drinks
22.76% alc./vol. (45.53° proof)
29.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Straits Sling is thought to be the original name of the Singapore Sling and in his 1922 Cocktails and How to Mix Them Robert Vermeire gives the following recipe for the cocktail:
2 dashes of Orange Bitters
2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
The juice of half a lemon
1/8 gill of Bénédictine
1/8 gill of Dry Cherry Brandy
1/8 gill of Gin
Pour into a tumbler and fill up with cold Soda Water.

In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David A. Embury calls for "Cherry Brandy (Kirsch)" in his Singapore Sling. Our Straits Sling recipe is adapted from Embury's Singapore Sling.

SINGAPORE GIN SLING
Of all the recipes published for his drink, I have never seen any two that were alike. Essentually it is simply a Gin Sling with the addition of cherry brandy. The following is typical of the various recipes:
1 teaspoonful Sugar Syrup
Juice of ¼ large Lemon or ½ large Lime
1 pony Cherry Brandy (Kirsch)
1½ jiggers Gin
1 dash Angostura
Shake and strain into 8-ounce Highball glass or use 10-ounce glass and leave 1 large ice cube in the glass. Fill glass with charged water. Some recipes call for the addition of Benedictine. Also, some call for ginger ale in place of the charged water. A slice of lemon peel should be twisted over and dropped into the drink.
David A. Embury, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, 1948

Review

Dry cherry and gin come to the fore in this long refreshing drink.

AKA: Singapore Sling

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.72 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Benedictine D.O.M. 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$37.99 $0.76 per cocktail Benedictine D.O.M. image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$3.55 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Leigh Leppard 4y

I know the measurements here come direct from the Raffles, but they don’t really make sense. As far as I can tell, Raffles glasses are around 375ml. I made one of these to this recipe in an ice-filled poco grande glass (390ml) and it was full to the absolute brim with no room for soda water. I’d recommend either going for a 20oz hurricane glass or cutting the ingredients by a third, which will allow around 50ml for soda water to top.

Genuinely baffled how the Raffles get round this.

Owen Richards 5y

Not dry cherry and gin at the fore, but lemon juice. I think I'd halve the quantity?

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