DILL or no dill
Ingredients
- 4 slice Cucumber
- 2 sprig Fresh dill
- 1 2⁄3 oz Tanqueray London Dry Gin
- 1⁄2 oz Elderflower liqueur
- 1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
- 1⁄4 oz Sugar syrup 'rich'
- 6 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s
- 4 drop Bob's Coriander Bitters optional
Method
Glass:
Photographed in an Urban Bar Alto Coupe 18cl
Prepare:
- Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of fresh dill sprig..
Method:
- MUDDLE cucumber to pulverise in base of shaker.
- Add dill and gently MUDDLE.
- Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
- FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish:
- Garnish with dill sprig.
History:
Adapted from a recipe created circa 2013 by Gareth Evans at the Social Eating House, Poland Street, Soho, London (now shuttered).
Review:
All puns intended! Gareth's original recipe calls for a pinch of smoked salt rather than saline solution, and it's a great call. (Perhaps use smoked salt saline solution.) No matter how you add your salinity to this verdant and herbaceous cocktail, it's delicious.
