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London Maid

Category: SmashMood: Spring
Highball

Ingredients

  • 3 thin cucumber slices
  • 8 - 12 mint leaves
  • 30ml lime juice
  • 22.5ml simple syrup
  • 60ml gin
No. of Servings:
1

Garnish

Cucumber slice and mint sprig

Instructions

  1. Add all ingredients except for the gin into a cocktail shaker.

  2. Muddle the ingredients.

  3. Add gin.

  4. Add ice, and shake until chilled.

  5. Double strain into a rocks glass with ice.

  6. Garnish with a mint sprig and a cucumber slice.

Hints

  1. When muddling, try to avoid bruising the mint to prevent bitter flavors.

  2. Some bartenders prefer adding the mint leaves along with the spirit to avoid bruising it. The shaking will extract the flavor even if it hasn't been muddled.

  3. The “Maid” cocktail family was created to work with any spirit.

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Trivia

  1. Created in 2004 by Sam Ross while working at Milk & Honey in New York City.

  2. This was the first in the "Maid" family of cocktails.

  3. This cocktail is very similar to an Eastside, but it is served in a rocks glass with ice.

  4. This recipe is also called an Old Maid.

  5. Originally, this recipe was called an "Ol' Biddy", but Sasha Petraske, owner of Milk & Honey did not like the name.

Tags

RefreshingEasy to drinkEasy2000sSmashCucumberMintLime juiceSimple syrupGin