Ingredients:
- 1½ oz Gin
- ¾ oz sweet vermouth
- ½ oz lemon juice (real lemon juice from a real lemon that got itself squeezed)
- ½ oz simple syrup (this is just sugar and water mixed in a 1:1 ratio)
- 3 dashes Agnostura bitters
Shake the ever-loving life out of it, then pour over ice.
Top it off with club soda.
Garnish with a lemon peel, wheel or wedge.
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Hmmm, not too far off the Gin Rickey, F. Scott Fitzgerald's favorite cocktail.
If i were hanging out with Rachel, we wouldn't talk politics, we'd be enjoying these drinks together!!!
What? you couldn't sling back a few and ecstatically talk politics at the same time? Try to imagine it! wonderful!
This week does call for a celebration. After my home was uprooted, I couldn't be more surprised that it had decided to land on an evil witch. I don't really need these old pair of shoes. I am on my way Home.
Haven't you heard? Auntie M. sold the farm and ran off with the Tin Man, they now reside in oil can alley.
So you might want to put those ruby slippers up for auction while Toto gnaws the with's bones and the straw man lays down for your bed. P.S. that lion is a republican and the wizard gets high.
The Gin Sling makes a wonderful appearance in Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective. In it, Lou Peckinpaugh orders a Brandy and gets a Gin Sling. There is much ethnocentric hilarity regarding the Chinese waiter named "Gin Sling."
And now for a little pedantry...
With all due respect to Ms. Maddow, this is not a Gin Sling--at least not traditionally. I hate Gin Slings, but this recipe sounds far, far worse. My Old Mr. Boston says, "Dissolve 1 tsp powdered sugar in 1 tsp water and juice 1/2 lemon. Add 2 oz. dry gin. Pour into glass over ice cubes and stir. Add a twist of orange peel."
It hardly matters; if you want a good sweet drink, have a Sidecar. But as RM says, "Always with fresh lemon!"
I like my drinks to be like my men.
In a glass? Oh, wait, that's a different movie!
Not sure, it sounded good though didn't it? I could say not at all but, that would only be partially true.
stiff and neat?
It would be so great if in one of the cocktail moments the measurements were in metric and imperial. just so that we backwards (or progressive depending on your perspective) europeans know just how much you are putting in.
Do like we have to for your recipes: find a conversion table! :)
Sometimes you have to go backwards in order to reach your desired destination. Not in equality or perfect justice. But, in ethics, a course I once helped someone learn, you have to look at the numbers and count backwards, figuratively speaking. Or you can just fudge it and learn how to pretend, either way you wake up with yourself and some still hide behind stained glass curtains.
I did what grumpy suggested (and what I do to convert my European friends' recipes).
1 fluid ounce= 29.57 ml
When in doubt, my understanding is that a shot class is about one ounce. It also should go without saying, but dashes and wedges are dashes and wedges no matter where you go.
Does sloe gin fizz? If so does fast gin fart?
Heh.
Had an unusual (for me anyway) drink last week at of all places a chain steak house. A White Peach Margarita. Not sure of all the ingredients but I know it had white peach puree, peach schnapps, and tequila. Served in a conical martini type glass with about an inch of the white peach puree at the pointy bottom of the glass.
You know how in vampire movies the vampire has that rapturous expression when he bites into the hot babes neck? That first sip on the straw was just like that. I had several with a decent steak and my wisdom teeth were tingling lol. Normally I am not really a fan of sweet cocktails but this was one of the most memorable drinks I have ever had...and it was the first time EVER that I ordered a better drink than my wife as a bonus =)
Well, now the republinos can correctly call Obama the Electricity
President! After all, look at all the people struggling because they
have lost power. Doesn't matter that it was due to the weather.
President Obama once again has failed the American people by making them
dependent on electricity. Oh wait, I meant to say food stamps, forget
about that electricity thing, people can survive without that, it's the
food stamps they must have to survive. Sometimes we republinos get our
wrong facts lost in unreality. BTW, the last time I got a speeding ticket the judge
made me pay a speeding tax.
Rachel Maddow has a serious transparency question when it comes to Adelson. Is he primarly interested in crushing unions and legalizing prostitutes in Macau, or is he determined to establish Eretz Israel?
I think absinthe would have been a more appropriate drink to celebrate healthcare as it initially was an herbal curative made in Switzerland. As with the Healthcare Act, its popularity and demonization is part of it mythos.
Still want a RMS cocktail shaker. :)
Is this the same thing as a Singapore sling? Haven't had one since 1964 at the end of basic training in the EM club at Ft, Gordon. That was a night I'd rather forget.
I love typos that lead to something new and thought-provoking. See above ingredients for the typo mentioned below.
'Agnostura bitters': Angostura bitters for T. H. Huxley and other agnostics.
'I don't know what Agnostura bitters are' is an appropriate response considering 'agnost' means 'not known.'
It's an err of perfection.