Cocktail recipe
Southside
A shaken cocktail featuring Gin, Lemon juice, Simple Syrup.
Ingredients
- 60 ml Gin
- 22.5 ml Lemon Juice
- 15 ml Simple Syrup
- 5 piece Mint Leaves
Method
- Add Gin, Lemon Juice, Simple Syrup and Mint Leaves to a shaker.
- Add ice and shake until cold.
- Double-strain through a cocktail strainer and a fine sieve into a chilled Nick & Nora glass.
- Optional garnish: Mint Leaves sprigs.
Story
Associated with New York's 21 Club and, in legend, with Chicago's Prohibition-era South Side gangs, who supposedly needed mint and sugar to make their gin drinkable. The 21 Club story is the better documented one.