Name: New Orleans Gin Fizz
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 67.5 ml Old Tom gin; 15 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Lime juice; 22.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 5 ml Orange flower water; 30 ml Egg white; 30 ml Cream; Top up with Soda from siphon

New Orleans Gin Fizz
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₄ oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
³⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup) 2 sugar to 1 water
¹⁄₆ oz	Orange blossom water / Orange flower water
1 oz	Egg white
1 oz	Single cream/half-and-half
Top up with	Soda from siphon

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Garnish: Lemon slice & mint sprig

How to make:

1. Vigorously SHAKE first seven ingredients with ice and pour back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and fine strain into chilled glass (no ice in glass). TOP with soda from siphon. ALTERNATIVELY, 2. Flash BLEND first seven ingredients without ice (to emulsify mix). Then pour contents of blender into shaker and SHAKE with ice. Strain into chilled glass (no ice in glass) and TOP with soda from siphon.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white - Eggs
Single cream/half-and-half - Dairy

Review:

The full flavour of Old Tom gin adds an extra dimension to this classic Gin Fizz. Indeed, it is probably the original Gin Fizz.

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History:

Said to be the original name and recipe of the Ramos Gin Fizz, created in 1888 by Henry C. Ramos at the Imperial Cabinet Saloon on the corner of Gravier and Carondelet Streets in New Orleans. Today, a New Orleans Gin Fizz is made with Old Tom gin while a Ramos Gin Fizz is made with London Dry gin. While today's Ramos Gin Fizz always has added rose water and sometimes vanilla essence, the New Orleans Gin Fizz usually relies on the use of Old Tom gin for its flavour nuances.

Nutrition:

One serving of New Orleans Gin Fizz contains 289 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
11.11% alc./vol. (11.11° proof)
20.5 grams of pure alcohol

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David M.

3rd November 2020 at 02:56

A drink I’ve always heard of, but never tasted. My first Gin Fizz. Made New Orleans style with Old Tom gin. Really nice and shockingly light, given the cream. I tried it with and without vanilla, with surprisingly little difference.

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