Cocktail recipe
Gimlet
Crisp gin and lime sour.
Ingredients
- 2 oz Gin
- 0.75 oz Lime Juice
- 0.5 oz Simple Syrup
- 1 piece Lime Wheel
Method
- Shake the gin, lime juice, and syrup with ice until chilled.
- Double strain into a chilled coupe.
- Garnish with lime wheel.
Story
The Royal Navy drank lime juice against scurvy, and Lauchlan Rose's preserved lime cordial of 1867 made it easy to carry; gin followed naturally. Raymond Chandler put it in The Long Goodbye: 'a real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else'.