Cocktail recipe

Singapore Sling

A shaken cocktail featuring Gin, Cherry heering, Cointreau.

Singapore Sling cocktail

Ingredients

  • 30 ml Gin
  • 15 ml Cherry Heering
  • 7.5 ml Cointreau
  • 7.5 ml Bénédictine
  • 15 ml Lime Juice
  • 10 ml Grenadine Syrup
  • 1 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
  • 120 ml Pineapple Juice

Method

  1. Add Gin, Cherry heering, Cointreau, Bénédictine, Lime Juice, Grenadine Syrup, Angostura aromatic bitters and Pineapple Juice to a shaker.
  2. Add ice and shake until cold.
  3. Strain into a hurricane glass over fresh ice.
  4. Optional garnish: pineapple and Maraschino Liqueur cherry.

Story

Attributed to Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffles Hotel's Long Bar around 1915, reportedly designed so that women, who were not supposed to drink in public, could hold something that looked like fruit juice.