Thursday, August 23, 2018

150. Gibson Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Castle & Key London Dry
  1 oz Martini & Rossi Extra Dry

Stir in mixing-glass half-full of ice, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — Jack lifts this Martini riff recipe, supposedly from San Francisco, probably from Straub 1913/1914 for his 1916 edition of the Manual. It is previously found in Boothby’s 1908 book, where he states “No bitters should ever be used in making this drink, but an olive is sometimes added.” In the Savoy Cocktail Book it is garnished with expressed lemon.

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