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Merry Widow Fizz

Name: Merry Widow Fizz
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Lemon juice; 30 ml Orange juice; 1 barspoon Powdered sugar; 1&frasl;2 fresh Egg white; 90 ml Soda water

Difford’s Guide

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin liqueur
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 barspoon	Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle) (or use 5ml of 2:1 sugar syrup per spoon)
¹⁄₂ fresh	Egg white
3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

Garnish: Lemon & orange slices

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Method:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and strain into chilled glass (no ice). TOP with soda.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

9.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white — Eggs

History

Adapted from a recipe in Stan Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Bar Guide.

MERRY WIDOW FIZZ
Tall Glass
Shake
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz orange juice
1 tsp sugar
1 egg white
1-1/2 oz sloe gin
Fill with soda, ice
Stan Jones, Jones' Complete Bar Guide, 1977

Review

Rich berry balanced by citrus and charged with soda to fizz. The egg white ensures a lasting thick foaming head.

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Comments & Discussion

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Caitlin 3y

It's tasty but I didn't get the hit of sloe gin I was anticipating. It might need more sloe gin, or less lemon (it was pretty lemony). Maybe also some plum bitters?