Name: Gin Twist
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); Top up with Boiling water

Gin Twist
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Serve in a Toddy glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
Top up with	Boiling water

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Garnish: Lemon zest twist

How to make:

POUR ingredients into pre-warmed glass and STIR.

Review:

Gin botanicals flavour this delicate, citrusy, warming drink.

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History:

This classic English cocktail dates back to at least the early 1800s and was so popular at the time that it is frequently referred to in novels and periodicals from the time. In Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel St Ronan's Well, the character Captain MacTurk says, "Sir Binco, I will beg the favour of your company to the smoking-room, where we may have a cigar and a glass of gin-twist; and we will consider how the honour of the company must be supported and upholden upon the present conjuncture."

William Makepeace Thackeray mentions the Gin Twist in his 1869 Miscellanies: The Book of Snobs. Sketches and Travels in London. "About eleven men in white neckcloths drop in from dinner-parties, and show their lacquered boots and shirt-studs with a little complacency - and at midnight, after the theatres, the young rakes and viveurs come swaggering in, and call loudly for Gin-Twist."

Nutrition:

One serving of Gin Twist contains 151 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
17.7% alc./vol. (17.7° proof)
14.6 grams of pure alcohol

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