Gin Stone Sour

Gin Stone Sour

  • Robust
  • Slightly tart
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Ingredients

  • 1 2⁄3 oz Hayman's Old Tom Gin
  • 3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
  • 3⁄4 oz Orange juice
  • 1⁄2 oz Sugar syrup 'rich'
  • 2 dash Orange Bitters by Angostura
  • 3 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

Method

Glassware:

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Prepare:

  1. Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of orange slice wheel.

Method:

  1. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish:

  1. Garnish with orange slice wheel.

Nutrition:

One serving of Gin Stone Sour contains 166 calories

History:

The first known recipe for a "Stone Sour" appears in Jacques Straub's 1914 book Drinks, but that first gin-based Stone Sour is without the orange juice that in later decades became part of this cocktail's DNA. Straub's Stone Sour is also differentiated from later renditions by its being frappé.

Review:

As per the original 1917 recipe, old tom gin (rather than dry gin) is the essential ingredient in this orange-influenced Gin Sour.