Cocktail recipe

Pegu Club

A shaken cocktail featuring Gin, Cointreau, Lime juice.

Pegu Club cocktail

Ingredients

  • 60 ml Gin
  • 22.5 ml Cointreau
  • 15 ml Lime Juice
  • 1 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
  • 1 dash Orange Bitters

Method

  1. Add Gin, Cointreau, Lime Juice, Angostura aromatic bitters and Orange Bitters to a shaker.
  2. Add ice and shake until cold.
  3. Strain into a cocktail glass over fresh ice.
  4. Optional garnish: lime wedge.

Story

The house drink of the Pegu Club, a British officers' club in colonial Rangoon, printed in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930. Audrey Saunders named her influential New York bar after it in 2005.